Quotes About Koinonia

#1. God worked in their lives in proportion to the degree of the koinonia, the quality of love between believers. Their favor with God flowed largely from his pleasure of their depth of fellowship.

John Franklin

#2. Clarence Jordan, co-founder of Koinonia Farm, wrote, The Good News of the resurrection is not that we shall die and go home with him, but that he is risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick, prisoner brothers with him.

Shane Claiborne

#3. Man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.

Moses Finley

#4. Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously ...

Gerard Van Der Leeuw

#5. Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Vernon Howard

#6. I lend my daughter beauty products, but only as a treat. If she's going to a party, I'll let her borrow a mascara or moisturizer.

Kate Winslet

#7. Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

Jerry Bridges

#8. Every atheist who believes in morality, gravity, and does math is a closeted believer.

Todd Friel

#9. I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them.

Truth Devour

#10. It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

Jerry Bridges

#11. You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.

David Levithan

#12. A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

Jerry Bridges

#13. Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

Kate Langley Bosher

#14. Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

Lauren Oliver

#15. Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

Jerry Bridges