quotes about Fellowship
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Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord
-- Abdul-Qadir Gilani -
There is no revival possible in any fellowship without a price being paid.
-- Alan Redpath -
The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.
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Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.
-- Charles E. Fuller -
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Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below
-- Charles Spurgeon -
In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.
-- Charles WesleySource : Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.272, Ravenio Books
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I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.
-- Chen-Ning YangSource : Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific
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To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.
-- David Simon -
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The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.
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A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.
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A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.
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God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do it? It was an incredibly elegant way to do it.
-- Francis Collins -
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Just the privilege of fellowship with God is infinitely more than any thing that God could give. When he gives himself he is giving more than anything else in the universe.
-- Frank Laubach -
I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting.
-- Frank LaubachSource : Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.14, SPCK
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Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.
-- George C. LorimerSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 247), 1895.
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The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.
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There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.
-- Harold Bell WrightSource : Harold Bell Wright (1970). “The Shepherd of the Hills”, p.30, Pelican Publishing
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
-- Harold E. Varmus -
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
-- Henry Edward ManningSource : Henry Edward Manning, Aeterna Press (2016). “Henry Edward Manning Collection [2 Books]”, p.394, Aeterna Press
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The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.
-- John BevereSource : FaceBook post by John Bevere from Sep 13, 2013
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Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
-- John Calvin -
There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
-- John D. Rockefeller -
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
-- John Forbes Nash -
People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.
-- John R. Rice -
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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.
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We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
-- Laurie Colwin -
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.
-- Martin Ryle -
Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.
-- Marya Mannes -
We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication
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Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers.
-- Neil T AndersonSource : Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (2000). “Daily in Christ”, Harvest House Publishers
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... marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: -- it seems rather to enlarge it ...
-- Olive Schreiner -
The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
-- Oswald Chambers -
Most Christians do not have fellowship with God; they have fellowship with each other about God.
-- Paris Reidhead -
Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship.
-- Paula Deen -
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We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.
-- Rick Warren -
He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
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There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.
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It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.
-- T. D. Jakes -
We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry
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A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
-- W. G. Grace -
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Fellowship means among other things that we are ready to receive of Christ from others. Other believers minister Christ to me, and I am ready to receive.
-- Watchman Nee -
There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley (1751). “The Country Wife: A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Written by Mr. Wycherley”, p.10
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In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.
-- Zachary Knighton -
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The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless.
-- Pankaj Mishra -
I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.
-- Patrick O'Brian -
I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.
-- Max WalkerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.