How can we be strangers, if we both follow Christ?
Fellowship
Gary A Furr
The tapestry of worship is formed by the various threads of conversation that occur in interweaving fashion: God’s Word being communicated to the gathered community (both individually and corporately), worshipers responding to God under the prompting of God’s Spirit, and those same worshipers sharing with each other their understandings of their faith commitments and of the ways in which God is at work in their lives.
Charles R. Swindoll
If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don’t you be bothered with him – leave him at the throne.
Jeremy Riddle
It’s easy to honor someone you don’t know. But to honor someone you DO know; after seeing the good, the bad and the ugly in their lives… this is the real challenge.
Kris Vallotton
How do we love people and stand by our convictions? In an effort to love all people, we sometimes miss this foundational truth: there is no such thing as love without conviction! For example, love is loyal therefore disloyalty brings conviction. Love is pure so impurity causes conviction. Love always tells the truth therefore lying brings conviction. Love always hopes so hopelessness breeds conviction. What I’m getting at is that love is not passive! We are commanded to speak the truth in love, and any peace that happens at the expense of morality is not worth having.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will only do harm to himself and to the community. … But the reverse is also true: Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
C.S. Lewis
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
Jenn Johnson
Have people in your life that will chase you and come after you with love when you are struggling or not at your best.
James Calvin Davis
Forbearance is the active commitment to maintain Christian community through disagreement, as an extension of virtue and as a reflection of the unity in Christ that binds the church together. (Colossians 3:13; Ephesians 4:2)
Kent M. Keith
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you’ve got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.
Note: This wonderful insight hung on Mother Theresa’s wall in the form of a poster. It was not written by her, contrary to many memes and misquotes.
Look up the Paradoxical Commandments for more details.