Quotes about Company
Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.
— Philip Yancey
Then a company of fifty of the sons of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing Elijah and Elisha as the two of them stood by the Jordan.
— 2 Kings 2:7
Then King Ahaziah sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. So the captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down!’”
— 2 Kings 1:9
So he took his men, divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose up against them and attacked them.
— Judges 9:43
God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves.
— Patrick Lencioni
The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.
— CS Lewis
There they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is in the company of the righteous.
— Psalm 14:5
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
— Genesis 28:3
The Lord gives the command; a great company of women proclaim it:
— Psalm 68:11
Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive fasting and prayer.
— Lou Engle
Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”
— 2 Kings 9:17