#fellowship

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

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beings #birth #fellowship #human #human beings

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#else #fellowship #finding #ground #job

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 contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#christ #christianity #contrast #declares #eternal

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

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. ↗

— David Simon

#flattering #gratifying #personally #told #very

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#fellowship #life #life

Not even to see fair Lothlorien?' said Haldir. 'The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fellowship-of-the-ring #j-r-r-tolkien #lord-of-the-rings #love

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