Fellowship Quotes

“It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they do not have fellowship as the undevout, as sinners. The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy. The fact is that we are sinners!”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“Do not be ashamed of help.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Himself included in that community as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.”
― Dallas Willard

“Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.”
― Deitrich Bonhoeffer

“I felt that something horrible was near from the moment that my foot first touched the water,' said Frodo. 'What was that thing, or were there many of them?'

'I do not know,' answered Gandalf; 'but the arms were all guided by one purpose. Something has crept, or has been driven out of dark waters under the mountains. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' He did not speak aloud his thought that whatever it was that dwelt in the lake, it had seized upon Frodo first among all the Company.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, but you have elected the way of pain. -Saruman”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Laughter is sweet when enjoyed alone. But it becomes sweeter when you enjoy it together with the people around you. Your success must lead to the success others.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.”
― Harold Bell Wright

“#3. Meditate on God's many commands demanding that we love one another. When you feel your heart begin to turn against another Christian, this is the time to turn to the many commands to love one another-commands found in places such as John 15:12, Romans 13:8, Hebrews 13:1, 1 John 4:7, 1 Peter 1:22, and so on. Allow God's Word to convict you of love's necessity.”
― Thomas Brooks

“As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if it must be said, against trust in the strength and truth of Men.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“If prayers emitted light, you'd see ours (Liberty students') from space.”
― Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

“At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims of the cemetary soil; waiting to become eternal people in fellowship for God. I know there is another fellowship in heaven!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Fellowship" is a Christianspeak for "flirt with unsuccessfully".”
― Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

“The trend in modern American culture is toward ever more individualized eating... and with every food added to the list of things one does not eat, the shorter becomes the list of people with whom one can enjoy table fellowship... for those of us whose health permits, partaking readily of whatever is offered can be a way of affirming that eating together is at least as important as whatever it is that is eaten.”
― Margaret Kim Peterson, Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life

“One person put it this way, 'If you want to get to know a Millennial, share a meal.' In other words, get to know them at an individual level.”
― David Kinnaman

“It was now Frodo's turn to feel pleased with himself. He capered about on the table; and when he came up a second time to the cow jumped over the Moon, he leaped in the air. Much too vigorously; for he came down, bang, into a tray full of mugs, and slipped, and rolled off the table with a crash, clatter, and bump! The audience all opened their mouths wide for laughter, and stopped short in gaping silence; for the singer disappeared. He simply vanished, as if he had gone slap through the floor without leaving a hole!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“When a man has forfeited fellowship at the feet of the cross, he has forfeited all.”
― Seyi Ayoola