An infographic with all of the “one another” commands in the New Testament:
God’s Love
“We must try to speak of his love. All Christians have tried, but none has ever done it very well. I can no more do justice to that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still… as I stretch my heart toward the high, shining love of God, someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope.” ~ A. W. Tozer
God is love. Not cheap, sentimental love, but redeeming love which cannot be said, but must be seen in the way we live.
~ Harry Denman
Marriage – select quotes
One man has never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
~ Robert Burton, in The Anatomy of Melancholy
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Every woman should marry, and no man.
~ Benjamin Disraeli, in Lothair
Vitium uxoris aut tollendum aut ferendum est. Qui tollit vitium, uxorem commodiorem praestat; qui fert, sese meliorem facit. [A wife’s faults must either be corrected or put up with. Who corrects the faults, makes his wife more pleasant; who puts up with them, makes himself a better man.]
~ Lucius Afranius, in Satirae Menippeae, De Officio mariti
Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
The institution of marriage makes a parasite of woman, an absolute dependent. It incapacitates her for life’s struggle, annihilates her social consciousness, paralyzes her imagination, and then imposes its gracious protection, which is in reality a snare, a travesty on human character.
~ Emma Goldman
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
~ Ruth Bell Graham
Once a man’s married he’s absolutely bitched.
~ Ernest Hemingway, in The Three-Day Blow
A good marriage is when you’re married not to someone you can live with, but to someone you really cannot live without.
~ Dr. Howard Hendricks
Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.
~ Jared Kintz
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sin.
~ Laozi
Marriage–a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
~ Beverly Nichols
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~ Rita Rudner
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
~ Barbra Streisand
If you want to become more like Jesus, I can’t imagine any better thing to do than to get married.
~ Gary Thomas
Yes, your spouse might be difficult to love at times, but that’s what marriage is for–to teach us how to love.
~ Gary Thomas
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
~ Paul Tournier
One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do. Two can be as bad as one. It’s the loneliest number since the number one…
~ Three Dog Night
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
~ Henry Youngman
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Love – select quotes
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.
~ Woody Allen
For where love is wanting, the beauty of all virtue is mere tinsel, is empty sound, is not worth a straw, nay more is offensive and disgusting.
~ John Calvin
Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.
~ Claudian
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
~ Anton Chekhov
Oh, what a heaven is love! Oh, what a hell!
~ Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, in The Honest Whore
God is love. Not cheap, sentimental love, but redeeming love which cannot be said, but must be seen in the way we live.
~ Harry Denman
More and more I come to value charity and love of one’s fellow being above everything else . . . All our lauded technological progress—our very civilizations—is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
~ Albert Einstein
Love can’t be pinned down by a definition, and is certainly something that can’t be proved. Love is people, is a person. A friend of ours, Hub Bishop of Mirfield, says in one of his books: “Love is not an emotion. It is a policy.”
~ Madeleine L’Engle, in A Circle of Quiet
We love because it’s the only true adventure.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
~ Rabbi Julius Gordon
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved—loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
~ Victor Hugo
When love is not madness, it is not love.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
– C.S. Lewis
To live without loving is not really to live.
~ Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch
Love among men is awakened by something in the beloved. But the love of God is free, spontaneous, unevoked, uncaused. God loves men because he has chosen to love them.
~ J. I. Packer
By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying—
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
~ Dorothy Parker
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Five Love Languages
I took the “love language” profile quiz at http://www.5lovelanguages.com/ and here are my results. Sounds about right.
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| Love Language Scores: 11 Words of Affirmation 5 Quality Time 3 Receiving Gifts 4 Acts of Service 7 Physical Touch |
Interpreting and Using Your Profile Score: The highest score indicates your primary love language (the highest score is 12). It’s not uncommon to have two high scores, although one language does have a slight edge for most people. That just means two languages are important to you. The lower scores indicate those languages you seldom use to communicate love and which probably don’t affect you very much on an emotional level. |
Words of Affirmation
Actions don’t always speak louder than words. If this is your love language, unsolicited compliments mean the world to you. Hearing the words, “I love you,” are important–hearing the reasons behind that love sends your spirits skyward. Insults can leave you shattered and are not easily forgotten.
Art and Artists – select quotes
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~ Scott Adams
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.
~ Theodore Adorno
It is curious that money, which is the most valuable thing in life, excepis excipiendis, should be the most fatal corrupter of music, literature, painting and all the arts. As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.
~ Samuel Butler
A picture is a poem without words.
~ Confucius
To me it seems as if God conceived the world, that was poetry; he formed it, and that was sculpture; He colored it, and that was painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal drama.
~ Charlotte Cushman
Nature is the Art of God.
~ Dante Alighieri in Monarchy
Art is a quest for the useless.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The artist is not a different kind of person, but each one of us is a different kind of artist.
~ Eric Gill
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
~ Rollo May
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
~ Michelangelo
Art is the great stimulus to life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.
~ John Opie
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
~ Pablo Picasso
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
~ Lincoln Steffens
But then no artist is normal; if he were, he wouldn’t be an artist. Normal men don’t create works of art. They eat, sleep, hold down routine jobs, and die. You are hypersensitive to life and nature; that’s why you are able to interpret for the rest of us. But if you are not careful, that very hypersensitiveness will lead you to your destruction. The strain of it breaks every artist in time.
~ Irving Stone, in Lust for Life
Art is not pleasure, or an amusement; art is a great matter.
~ Leo Tolstoy, in What Is Art?
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What is a Girl?
What Is A Girl?
by Alan Beck
Little girls are the nicest things that can happen to people. They are born with a bit of angel-shine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes, there is always enough left to lasso your heart—even when they are sitting in the mud, or crying temperamental tears, or parading up the street in Mother’s best clothes.
A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth, she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
God borrows from many creatures to make a little girl. He uses the song of a bird, the squeal of a pig, the stubbornness of a mule, the antics of a monkey, the spryness of a grasshopper, the curiosity of a cat, the speed of a gazelle, the slyness of a fox, the softness of a kitten, and to top it all off He adds the mysterious mind of a woman.
A little girl likes new shoes, party dresses, small animals, first grade, noisemakers, the girl next door, dolls, make-believe, dancing lessons, ice cream, kitchens, coloring books, make-up, cans of water, going visiting, tea parties, and one boy. She doesn’t care so much for visitors, boys in general, large dogs, hand-me-downs, straight chairs, vegetables, snowsuits, or staying in the front yard.
She is loudest when you are thinking, the prettiest when she has provoked you, the busiest at bedtime, the quietest when you want to show her off, and the most flirtatious when she absolutely must not get the best of you again. Who else can cause you more grief, joy, irritation, satisfaction, embarrassment, and genuine delight than this combination of Eve, Salome, and Florence Nightingale.
She can muss up your home, your hair, and your dignity—spend your money, your time, and your patience—and just when your temper is ready to crack, her sunshine peeks through and you’ve lost again.
Yes, she is a nerve-wracking nuisance, just a noisy bundle of mischief. But when your dreams tumble down and the world is a mess—when it seems you are pretty much of a fool after all—she can make you a king when she climbs on your knee and whispers, “I love you best of all!”
Parenting 101 – select quotes
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Associations and sympathy have far more influence with children, than argument or reasoning. Or rather, we might almost say, associations and sympathy have all the influence, and argument none at all… If you have no sympathy with [your children’s] childish feelings, you can gain no sympathy in their hearts for the sentiments and principles you may endeavor to inculcate upon them. If, however, you can secure their affection and sympathy, your power over them is almost unbounded. They will believe whatever you tell them, and adopt the principles and feelings you express, simply because they are yours. They will catch the very tone of your voice, and expression of your countenance, and reflect spontaneously, the moral image, whatever it may be, which your character may hold up before them.
~ Jacob Abbott
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
~ Erma Bombeck
Parents are not interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.
~ Bill Cosby
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
~ Phyllis Diller
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
~ King Edward VII
The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven’t the faintest idea how to do their homework.
~ Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
Nurses nurse
and teachers teach
and tailors mend
and preachers preach
and barbers trim
and chauffeurs haul
and parents get to do it all.
~ Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.
~ Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
Parenting — not politics, not the classroom, not the laboratory, not even the pulpit — is the place of greatest influence.
~ Kent and Barbara Hughes
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.
~ Franklin P. Jones
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our children are being raised by appliances.
~ Bill Moyers
Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you’re 12, but every day.
~ Mike Myers
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
~ Robert Orben
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
~ Robert Orben
I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.
~ Anna Quindlen
Having children is like living in a frat house — nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.
~ Ray Romano
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
~ Rita Rudner
Parents, if you love your children, do all that lies in your power to train them up to a habit of prayer. Show them how to begin. Tell them what to say. Encourage them to persevere. Remind them if they become careless and slack about it. Let it not be your fault, at any rate, if they never call on the name of the Lord.
~ John Ryle, in The Duties of Parents
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long-suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, — these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, — these are the clues you must follow if you would ind the way to his heart.
~ J.C. Ryle
Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, –to do as they are bid…. Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.
~ J. C. Ryle
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
~ Thomas Scott
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
~ Thomas Sowell
Train up a child in the way he should go–but be sure you go that way yourself.
~ Charles Spurgeon
An evil upbringing in the home is worse than the wars of God and Magog.
~ Talmud, Berakot, 7
He who teaches his son is as if he had taught his son, his son’s son, and so on to the end of all generations.
~ Talmud, Kiddushin, 30
Do not threaten a child. Either punish or forgive him.
~ Talmud, Semahot, 2, 6
Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child’s ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.
~ ~ H. Clay Trumbull, in Hints on Child Training
No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child’s good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.
~ H. Clay Trumbull, in Hints on Child Training
Parents: A peculiar group who first try to get their children to walk and talk, and then try to get them to sit down and shut up.
~ Wagster’s Dictionary of Humor and Wit
Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
~ John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
I’ve got two wonderful children — and two out of five isn’t too bad.
~ Henry Youngman
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
~ Unknown
Friendship – select quotes
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The making of friends who are real friends is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.
~ Edward Hale
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib, A Hundred Sayings
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
~ Henry Adams
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
~ Aristotle
A true friend is one soul divided into two people.
~ Aristotle
I get by with a little help from my friends.
~ The Beatles
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
~ Pam Brown
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
~ Octavia Butler
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.
~ Dale Carnegie
Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter
Friends and family can set us right
And help guide us back to the light.
~Sera Christann
Woman –a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.
~ Cicero, in On Friendship
Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.
~ Cicero, in On Friendship
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
~ J. Churton Collins
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
~ Dinah Craik
I felt it shelter to speak to you.
~ Emily Dickinson
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
~ Marlene Dietrich
No one knows with any certainty whether any act of friendship or love is real or simply a calculated ploy to get something from someone else.
~ David Dorsey, in The Force
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
~ Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness, with which one chemical atom meets another. Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank, that being permitted to speak truth, as having none above it to court or conform unto.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Friendship
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~ Elisabeth Foley
It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
~ Benjamin Franklin
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
~ D.T. Gentry
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
~ Kahlil Gibran, in The Prophet
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
~ Dave Tyson Gentry
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
~ Arnold Glasow
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
~ Goethe
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
~ Grace Pulpit
Bubba was my best good friend.
~ Forrest Gump
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Character is so largely affected by associations that we cannot afford to be indifferent as to who and what our friends are. They write their names in our albums, but they do more, they help make us what we are. Be therefore careful in selecting them; and when wisely selected, never sacrifice them.
~ M. Hulburd
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and more symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
~ Aldous Huxley, in Brave New World
My father always used to say that, when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.
~ Lee Iacocca
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
~ John 15:13
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
~ Emily Kimbrough
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
~ C.S. Lewis
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~ Abraham Lincoln
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
~ Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Joseph Gillespie, 13 July 1849
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~ George MacDonald
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
~ Katherine Mansfield
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I’ll lean on you and you lean on me and we’ll be okay.
~ Dave Matthews Band
Friendship is a cadence of divine melody melting through the heart.
~ Charles Mildway
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh!” he whispered. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.”
~ A.A. Milne
We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.”
~ Michel Eyquen de Montaigne, in Essays, Bk. 3, Ch. 13
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
~ Toni Morrison, Beloved
Hold a true friend with both of your hands.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
~ Anaïs Nin, diary entry, March 1937
We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~ Caroline Sheridan Norton
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
~ Henri Nouwen, in Out of Solitude
And when somebody knows you well, well there’s no comfort like that. And when somebody needs you, well there’s no drug like that.
~ Heather Nova
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
~ Dorothy Parker
You can always tell a real friend; when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~ Plautus
Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~ Marcel Proust
A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity.
~ Proverbs 17:17
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
~ Proverbs 18:24
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
~ Proverbs 27:6
To attract good fortune spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
~ Chinese proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
~ Czech proverb
The road to a friend’s house is never long.
~ Danish proverb
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
~ Japanese Proverb
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
~ Sicilian Proverb
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
~ Spanish Proverb
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
~ Swedish Proverb
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
~ Donna Roberts
Friends never betray you, only people you thought were your friends.
~ T.Mike Runger
A friendship that can be ended didn’t ever start.
~ Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Oeuvres poétiques
O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
~ Saadi
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
~ Sallust
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
~ George Santayana
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~ Albert Schweitzer
A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter;
he who finds one finds a treasure.
A faithful friend is beyond price,
no sum can balance his worth.
~ Sirach 6:14-15
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
~ Solon
A friend is a present you give yourself.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
~ Sun Tzu
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
True wealth can not be found in your bank account. It can only be found in those you call friend. Those with whom you share your deepest feelings. And those who accept you for who you really are.
~ Mary Vandergrift
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
~ Virginia Woolf
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
~ Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
~ William Arthur Ward
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
~ Flavia Weedn
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
~ Frances Ward Weller
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.
~ Edith Wharton
A true friend stabs you in the front.
~ Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
~ Oscar Wilde
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~ Oprah Winfrey
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
~ Winnie the Pooh
A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
~ Lois Wyse
Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
~ The Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:33
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.
~ Author Unknown
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.
~ Author Unknown
Friends are family you choose for yourself.
~ Author Unknown
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
~ Author Unknown
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
~ Author Unknown
If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.
~ Author Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.
~ Author Unknown
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
~ Author Unknown
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Comfort – select quotes
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
~ Isaac Barrow
Grant unto us, Lord, that we may set our hope on Thy name…and open the eyes of our hearts, that we may know Thee. We beseech Thee, Lord and Master, to be our help and succour. Save those among us who are in tribulation; have mercy on the lowly; lift up the fallen; show Thyself to those in need; heal the sick; turn again the wanderers of Thy people; feed the hungry; ransom our prisoners; raise up the weak; comfort the faint-hearted. Let all nations know that Thou art God alone, and that Jesus Christ is Thy Son, and that we are Thy people and the sheep of Thy pasture. We praise Thee who art able to do these and better things than these, through Jesus Christ the High Priest and Guardian of our souls, through whom be glory and majesty to Thee, both now and throughout all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.
~ a prayer of Clement of Rome
The superior man thinks always of virtue, the common man thinks of comfort.
~ Confucius
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
~ Dinah Craik
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
~ Viktor Frankl
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
~ D.T. Gentry
We are more at home with our own ideas about religion—with thoughts which are more comfortable and reassuring, with a “god” who is rather like us and who can be brought into line with our own expectations. This God is domesticated—like a religious “pet” rather than the wild, untamed presence of the Almighty.
~ David Hewetson and David Miller, in Christianity Made Simple
Spirit of fire,
Paraclete, our Comforter,
you’re the Live in alive,
the Be in every creature’s being,
the Breathe in every breath on earth.
Holy Life-Giver,
Doctor of the desperate,
Healer of everyone broken past hope,
Medicine for all wounds,
Fire of love,
Joy of hearts,
fragrant Strength,
sparkling Fountain,
Protector,
Penetrator,
in you we contemplate
how God goes looking for those who are lost
and reconciles those who are at odds with him.
Break our chains!
You bring people together.
You curl clouds, whirl winds,
send rain on rocks, sing in creeks,
and turn the lush earth green.
You teach those who listen,
breathing joy and wisdom into them.
We praise you for these gifts,
Light-giver,
Sound of joy,
Wonder of being alive,
Hope of every person,
and our strongest Good.
~ “The First Fire”, by Hildegard of Bingen
Howsoever men when they sit at ease, do vainly tickle their own hearts with the wanton conceit of I know not what proportionable correspondence between their merits and their rewards, which in the trance of their high speculations, they dream that God hath measured and laid up as it were in bundles for them; we see notwithstanding by daily experience, in a number even of them that when the hour of death approacheth, when they secretly hear themselves summoned to appear and stand at the bar of that Judge, whose brightness causeth the eyes of angels themselves to dazzle, all those idle imaginations do then begin to hide their faces. To name merits then, is to lay their souls upon the rack. The memory of their own deeds is loathsome unto them. They forsake all things wherein they have put any trust and confidence. No staff to lean upon, no rest, no ease, no comfort then, but only in Christ Jesus.
~ Richard Hooker.
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.
~ Washington Irving
Western culture has things a little backwards right now. We think that if we had every comfort available to us, we’d be happy. We equate comfort with happiness. And now we’re so comfortable we’re miserable. There’s no struggle in our lives. No sense of adventure. We get in a car, we get in an elevator, it all comes easy. What I’ve found is that I’m never more alive than when I’m pushing and I’m in pain, and I’m struggling for high achievement, and in that struggle I think there’s a magic.
~ Dean Karnazes
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
~ Emily Kimbrough
So the Church, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, was multiplied.
~ Luke, Acts 9:31, The Bible
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
~ Katherine Mansfield
What keeps so many employees back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
~ Orison Swett Marden
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
~ Somerset Maugham
Lord God, … Teach me to understand that the Spirit is the Comforter, who frees me from all anxiety and fear about my own powerlessness, in order that He may work the strength of Christ in me. Amen.
~ from “Flesh and Spirit”, by Andrew Murray
Let Jesus be your teacher. He Himself was sanctified by suffering: it was in suffering that He learned full obedience. He has a wonderfully sympathetic heart. Have much intercourse with Him. Seek not your comfort from much speaking on the part of men or with men. Give Jesus the opportunity of teaching you. Have much converse with Him in solitude. (Isa. 26:16; 61:1,2; Heb. 2:10,17,18; 5:9) The Father has given you the word, the Spirit, the Lord Jesus your sanctification, in order to sanctify you: affliction and chastisement are meant to bring you to the word, to Jesus Himself, in order that He may make you partaker of His holiness. It is in fellowship with Jesus that consolation comes as of itself (2 Cor. 1:3,4; Heb. 13:5,6)
~ from Chastisement, by Andrew Murray
We look to ourselves and our strength; we would seek comfort in our own feeling, or our own works, and all becomes dark. As soon as we look to Jesus, to the fulness, to the perfect provision for our needs that is in Him, all is light. He says, `I am the Light: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.’ So long as I believe, I have light and gladness. (John 12:36; 11:40; Rom. 15:13; 1 Pet. 1:8)
~ from “Light and Joyfulness“, by Andrew Murray
And when somebody knows you well, well there’s no comfort like that. And when somebody needs you, well there’s no drug like that.
~ Heather Nova
“He knoweth the way that I take.” The omniscience of God is one of the wondrous attributes of Deity. “For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings” (Job 34:21). “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good (Prov. 13r:3). Spurgeon said, “One of the greatest tests of experimental religion is, What is my relationship to God’s omniscience?” What is your relationship to it, dear reader? How does it affect you? Does it distress or comfort you? Do you shrink from the thought of God knowing all about your way? perhaps, a lying, selfish, hypocritical way! To the sinner this is a terrible thought. He denies it, or if not, he seeks to forget it. But to the Christian, here is real comfort. How cheering to remember that my Father knows all about my trials, my difficulties, my sorrows, my efforts to glorify Him.
~ from “Tried by Fire” , by A.W. Pink
Ponder well the glorious “conclusion” which the Spirit of God here draws from the wondrous fact stated in the first part of our text, “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things.” How conclusive and how comforting is the inspired reasoning of the apostle. Arguing from the greater to the less, He proceeds to assure the believer of God’s readiness to also freely bestow all needed blessings. The gift of His own Son, so ungrudgingly and unreservedly bestowed, is the pledge of every other needed mercy. Here is the unfailing guaranty and talisman of perpetual reassurance to the drooping spirit of the tried believer. If God has done the greater, will He leave the less undone? Infinite love can never change. The love that spared not Christ cannot fail its objects nor begrudge any needed blessings.
~ from “The Great Giver”, by A.W. Pink
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
~ Henry David Thoreau in Walden
There is no life truly comfortable, but that which hath a comfortable prospect of death and judgment. Never envy the condition of them who seem to be the only cheerful men in the world, whom one quarter of an hour’s serious thought of death and judgment, is enough to make them like Belshazzar at his great feast (Dan 5:6) whose countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. Amazement seized on soul and body. How can a man be said to live comfortably, that dare not think of death, for fear of marring his comfort? Miserable is that consolation that cannot bear a serious thought of an approaching unavoidable thing. This is the wisdom and mercy of the Lord to his people, that their true consolation doth not only stand and abide in the view of death and judgment, but it ariseth from that view that is so terrible to all natural men. This is the blessedness of believers, that this grace allows them a right to, and can give them a possession of. And therefore we should come to the throne of grace for it. Then you are happy Christians, when serious thoughts of death breed serious joy.
~ from Concerning the Throne of Grace, by Robert Trail
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
~ Mark Twain
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.
~ Psalm 23:4, The Bible
I remember your ancient laws, O LORD,
and I find comfort in them.
~ Psalm 119:52, The Bible
May your unfailing love be my comfort,
according to your promise to your servant.
~ Psalm 119:76, The Bible
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
~ Matthew 5:4, The Bible
The first mate and his skipper too,
will do their very best,
to make the others comfortable,in the tropic island nest.
~ from the theme song to Gilligan’s Island
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