Quotes about Table

Now all the candles were lit, and the faces on both sides of the table were brought nearer by the candle light, and composed, as they had not been in the twilight, into a party round a table

Little goat, when you are able, Come and clear away my table.

Faith's table is always laid, whether the invited guest sits down or stays away with a thousand excuses and pretexts.

And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

A lamplit table spread Old hospitality Of cheese and wine and bread. - 1993 V Remembering Evia

The kingdom of God is not a geographic domain with set boundaries and settled decrees, but a set of relationships in which Christ is sovereign. At the table, Jesus moves us from ideas about life and love to actual living and loving. Martin Luther was right. Theology is table talk.[38] Jesus didn't sell the food of his Father. He issued invitations to the table. In fact, Jesus' favorite image for the kingdom of God is a banquet where everyone is sitting around a table.

To come to the table is to learn to be our real selves—not some construct conceived by someone else, but who God made us to be.

For Jesus the home is not what defines the table; the table is what defines the home.

The kingdom of God is not a geographic domain with set boundaries and settled decrees, but a set of relationships in which Christ is sovereign. At the table, Jesus moves us from ideas about life and love to actual living and loving.

Proofs of the week's paper were spread out on what I grandly called my desk. This was a rickety wooden table against the side wall outside the Editor's office.

Concupierunt concupiscentiam in deserto. . . . Numquid poterit parare mensam populo suo?

The King, full of mercy and goodness, very far from chastising me, embraces me with love, makes me eat at His table, serves me with His own hands, gives me the key of His treasures; He converses and delights Himself with me incessantly, in a thousand and a thousand ways, and treats me in all respects as His favorite. It is thus I consider myself from time to time in His holy presence.