Quotes About Fellowship

merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again

There is a time in each person's life when they become accountable for making the decision to accept Jesus' payment for their wrongdoing. If the decision is to accept the restored fellowship with God through receiving Jesus' blood sacrifice for their sins, then God's Holy Spirit takes up residency in the person. God's spirit actually comes and lives in those who invite him to do so. - Excerpt, Unshackled: Experiencing True Freedom for Men and Women

The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists.

In the year that al-Banna was killed, Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian civil servant and essayist, was on a fellowship in the United States. On his arrival, he had been overwhelmed by fear as to whether he could resist the "sinful temptation" that surely awaited him.

and all the people who were

In John's vision of the cosmos, there is no room for gathering around God's throne at one time as one's cosmic center and at another time in the fellowship of idols and their worshipers.

see the Nimble Thief and the Man with Two Lives and the Blind Man, but I don't see the others. Where's the Dreadful Bear and the Knight Protector? The Horse Lord and the Bowman? And the ladies? Where are they—the Queen of the World and the Mother of the Race That Died?

But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.

I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he to day that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other,... but to be with each other.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, [...] but to be _with_ each other.

había entendido que no corremos para ganarnos los unos a los otros, sino para estar junto a esos otros.

In this short time you have already become as a brother to me.' 'That is what the Prince creates between men--brotherhood.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

A funny thing happens when more than one knitter gathers in a public place. A solo knitter, presuming she is a woman, quickly fades into the backdrop like a potted palm or a quietly nursing mother. ... A single knitter is shorthand for "nothing to see here, move on." But when knitters gather, we become incongruously conspicuous. We are a species that other people aren't used to seeing in flocks, like a cluster of Corgis, a dozen Elvis impersonators waiting for the elevator.

Christianity is not a philosophy; it is not a set of rules that one may follow on one's own. It is a life which can only be lived in community, in the Church that Christ Himself founded.

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

I have no equals, I have only my fellow wayfarers.

The whole man is taken into fellowship with that one true God; not only his feelings, but also his mind and will, his heart and all his affections, his soul and his body.

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together [a meeting of believers] each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 1 Corinthians 14:26