Gathering Quotes
Gathering Quote of the day
The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering.
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
I hate partying. If I'm forced to go to a party or a social gathering, I go in at 9:30 and leave at 10 P.M.
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.
America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them
It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
We (the FBI) are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.
Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.
It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.
Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.
But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.
Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.