Quotes about Fellowship
A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
— Jerry Bridges
and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: βLet us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.β
— Zechariah 8:21
And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.β
— Numbers 10:10
Our sight is dimmed by the tyranny of the urgent, by the siren call of success, by the seductive beauty of physical things, by our inability to admit our own problems, and by the casual relationships within the body of Christ that we mistakenly call fellowship.
— Timothy Lane
Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.
— 1 Thessalonians 5:26
The common life that believers have in Him. In the same manner, if believers are to share with one another
— Jerry Bridges
Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
— JRR Tolkien
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
— Margaret Atwood
It is impossible to enter into fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others.
— Oswald Chambers
We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.
— Rick Warren
In many ways a church is simply a group of people who are living lives of love (John 13:34β35) because they all agree on how they have been loved in Christ.
— Mark Dever
Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.
— John Lennox