#fellowship

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice. ↗

— Rick Warren

#church-life #fellowship #life

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. ↗

— Athanasius

#escaping #fellowship #god #heaven #judgment

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College. ↗

— Martin Ryle

#college #elected #fellowship #i #physics

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

I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#burned #came #fellowship #good #here

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#fellowship #life #life

Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if it must be said, against trust in the strength and truth of Men. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#frodo #j-r-r-tolkien #lord-of-the-rings #men #men

As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#fellowship #forgiveness #faith

It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they do not have fellowship as the undevout, as sinners. The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy. The fact is that we are sinners! ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#fellowship #honesty #humility #hypocrisy #sin

At last Frodo spoke with hesitation. 'I believed that you were a friend before the letter came,' he said, 'or at least I wished to. You have frightened me several times tonight, but never in the way the servants of the Enemy would, or so I imagine. I think one of his spies would - well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fellowship #j-r-r-tolkien #strider #the-lord-of-the-rings #imagination