Quotes About Gatherings

People take toasting way too seriously - especially the clinking glasses part. There are always a few people who are seated too far away from each other to easily clink.

We live life in restaurants, its the center of social life, where we celebrate with family and friends, make new friends, travel without traveling, and of course, eat.

For a more radical form of precommitment, you could skip the party altogether and seek out gatherings with lower-calorie offerings—and thinner people. We're not suggesting you dump your chubby friends, but there does seem to be a connection between what you weigh and whom you socialize with. Researchers who have analyzed social networks find that obese people tend to cluster together, as do thin people. Social distance seems to matter more than physical distance:

And everybody knows a party means food!" Liberty yelled, causing a passing woman in a velvet dress to drop her fan to the ground.

There is only so much manpower and tax revenue that can be devoted to riot control, to social surveillance, to chasing fast youths down dark alleyways, to fire-hosing and pepper-spraying suspicious-looking gatherings.

There's nothing worse than a barbecue turned into an indoor picnic.

I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas.

You may," I said magnanimously, "invite me over whenever you care to have wine.

Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

Churches are just clubs for people who like to join things.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

I throw pretty regular dance parties with my friends.

I throw the best parties.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself the basic discipler of Christians. It does this through its weekly gatherings and its accountability structures (this chapter), as well as its elders and its members (next chapter). These in turn provide the context for the one-on-one discipling we have been considering so far.

The church is about life-giving relationships that come together in gatherings. When we gather, we don't primarily assemble in the style of the synagogue: to learn, to receive, to evaluate, and to contemplate. Rather, we assemble in the style of the temple: to worship, to pray, to encounter God, and to bring our offering. We come as living stones, fitted together in the house of God as a collective dwelling place.

Rupert had shepherded his friends round a small but massive table

From Addy in Berlin came the news that all social gatherings had been banned except for weddings and funerals, where the number of people could not be higher than twelve. (I wonder if that's counting the bride and groom, Cole's mother said, and his father joked: How about the corpse?)

Yes!" I perk up. "Actually, I was wondering, do the mothers have lots of coffee mornings, parties, that kind of thing?" Erica shoots me an odd look. "I meant socialization of the children." "Right." I clear my throat. "The children. Of course.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.