Quotes About Fellowship

While offering to the Lord the results of Mr. Cowper's hallucination, or declaring it was Love that lifted her, Jean Louise shared the warmness that prevails among diverse individuals who find themselves in the same boat for one hour each week.

'Walk With Me' was written really fast, and that one is about togetherness.

In 1989, I had a fellowship to teach for Yale in China for two years. I came back from California to New Haven to spend the summer learning Chinese, but because of Tiananmen Square, Yale cancelled the program.

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

We train in the mornings, and then I go home and rest or sleep, and usually I go for a meal with Abel of a night, as we're the two with no family here, so we tend to hang around together.

In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings.

Possess patience to such an extent that you can suffer anything for the church, for your friends, for your neighbors, or for anyone. Remember this: we build character in others as our character is built. As we are pure in our thoughts, are tender and gracious to other people, and possess our souls in patience (Luke 21:19), then people have a great desire for our fellowship in the Holy Spirit.

Thus a true sacrifice is every work which is done that we may be united to God in holy fellowship, and which has a reference to that supreme good and end in which alone we can be truly blessed. And therefore even the mercy we show to men, if it is not shown for God's sake, is not a sacrifice.

human words are at best tentative, being true only in so far as they align with the revelation of the Bible. We are not a cadre of superior believers who reach from their lofty heights to assist those of inferior development along the way. Rather, we are fellow travelers along the path of life who desire to share what we have learned about God and His dealings. The call is to those who read to come along and let us learn together about the riches of our Lord.

Nur einsame Kinder können ganz ihre Leidenschaft zusammenhalten: die anderen zerschwätzen ihr Gefühl in Geselligkeit, schleifen es ab in Vertraulichkeiten, sie haben von Liebe viel gehört und gelesen und wissen, daß sie ein gemeinsames Schicksal ist.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.

Jesus is the sanctuary every time we gather with other believers. We need that truth to soak into our hearts.

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The thing that's great about singing together is it's a great way of bringing people together.

Everywhere I go, everyone I talk with, everyone I think about - their salvation is what is on my mind. I love fellowship with Christians, but I can't become preoccupied with the pleasure of fellowship when I know that sinners are sinking into hell.

To be able to sit back and enjoy the game, sit back and watch guys that you know played and you might have worked with it or you personally know, it's cool; it's awesome to sit back and say I know that guy because you're more of a fan of that game and that person.

In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room with sixteen playwrights. I remember looking around and thinking that since I was sitting there, I must be a playwright, too.

Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being together in places like skating rinks.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for myself, and vice versa.

What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?

Love your fellow man, and take care of each other and your environment.