Quotes about Togetherness
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.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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!
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.
— Desmond Tutu
Life's better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.
— George Clooney
Friends make life a lot more fun.
— Charles Swindoll
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
— Helen Keller
This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.
— Jerry Bridges
It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.
— Jerry Bridges
Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.
— Jerry Bridges
The common life that believers have in Him. In the same manner, if believers are to share with one another
— Jerry Bridges
Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.
— Ernest Hemingway
Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
— Ernest Hemingway