#fellows

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#creation #fellowship #god #hearing #joy

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ↗

— William Wycherley

#friendship #good #lasting #manly #pleasures

In the New Testament, we don't find our gift through self-examination and introspection and then find ways to express it. Instead, we love one another, serve one another, help one another, and in so doing we see how God has equipped us to do so. ↗

— Russell Moore

#spiritual-gifts #family

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#creatures #desolate #dues #earth #fellowship

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#galadriel #the-fellowship-of-the-ring #the-lord-of-the-ring #beauty

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#despises #diverted #entertain #fellows #i

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush. ↗

— John Spratt

#bush #concerned #country #course #federal

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#base #doing #doing good #fellows #good

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#beauty #fellows #her #i #jealous

I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#blood #experience #fellowship #gathered #here