Quotes about Togetherness

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

Then we'll go up the road and tell the good news to the others.

What a family! Anne repeated exultantly.

With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.

Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

You are called into the community of faith; the call was not meant for you alone. You carry your cross, you struggle, and you pray in the community of faith, the community of those who are called.

We can never achieve this 'wholeness' simply by ourselves, but only together with others…

Here all fear of one another, all timidity about praying freely in one's own words in the presence of others may be put aside where in all simplicity and soberness the common, brotherly prayer is lifted to God by one of the brethren. But likewise all comment and criticism must cease whenever words of prayer howsoever halting are offered in the name of Jesus Christ. It is in fact the most normal thing in the common Christian life to pray together.

We recognize, then, that only as we are within the fellowship can we be· alone, and only he that is alone can live in the fellowship. Only in the fellowship do we learn to be rightly alone and only in aloneness do we learn to live rightly in the fellowship. It is not as though the one preceded the other; both begin at the same time, namely, with the call of Jesus Christ.

How could one person pray the prayer of the community without being held up and supported in prayer by the community itself? At precisely this point every word of criticism must be transformed into more faithful intercession and mutual help. How easily a community can split apart if this is not done!