Quotes about Welcome

Put differently, we've made the church into the American dream for our own ethnic group with the same set of convictions about next to everything. No one else feels welcome. What Jesus and the apostles taught was that you were welcomed because the church welcomed all to the table.

J. Nelson Kraybill therefore contends that the "rapture" more accurately describes not being whisked away into heaven but our going out to meet Jesus to welcome him back to earth!

If God welcomed newborns into Israel by means of ritual circumcision for two thousand years, why would He suddenly close the kingdom to babies because they could not understand ritual baptism?

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

A kindly courtesy does at least save one's feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome.

Before the antichrist can be welcomed with wide-open arms by the world, a change in society's mentality must first take place.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

Let the Piper come and welcome, he cried, waving his hand. I'LL follow him gladly round and round the world.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

says he 'welcomes sinners and eats with them.'14 Now, think about that. In his culture, to dine with someone meant to offer friendship. The word welcome in Greek means that he took great pleasure in them. Jesus doesn't delight in sin, but he liked being around these people, maybe because they were well aware of their depravity, unlike many of the religious folks who masked it with hypocrisy.

How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!

Welcome the righteous, avoid the wicked, and yet open both arms to the repentant.Whoever receives them receives God.