January 31, 2012

We cannot tell the precise moment when
friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel
drop by drop, there is at last a drop which
makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses
there is at last one which makes the heart run over
                                 -Samuel Johnson

January 30, 2012

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can
comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we
ourselves have received from God.
                            2 Corinthians 1:3-4

January 28, 2012

Thank you, God in heaven, for friends.
When morning wakes, when daytime ends,
I have the consciousness of loving
hands that touch my own,
of tender glance and gentle tone.
                             -Margaret Sangster

January 23, 2012

A friend is one to whom one may pour

out all the contents of one's heart,

chaff and grain together,

knowing that the gentlest of hands

will take and sift it,

keep what is worth keeping,

and with a breath of kindness,

blow the rest away.

     -Dinah Maria Mullock Craik

January 22, 2012

I no longer call you servants,
because a servant does not know his master's business.
Instead, I have called you friends,
for everything that I learned from My Father
I have made known to you.
                                       -John 15:15

January 21, 2012

Our business is to love what God would have us do.
He wills our vocation as it is: let us love that and not
trifle away our time in hankering after other people's vocation.
                                                        -Francis De Sales

January 18, 2012

Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope;
Because of the Lord's great love
we are not consumed,
for His compassions never fail.
             Lamentations 3:21-23

January 16, 2012

I especially value the friends
who love me as God loves me--
through no merit of my own!
                          -Sharon M. Mason

January 14, 2012

A word aptly spoken
is like apples of gold
in settings of silver.
              Proverbs 25:11

January 10, 2012

As water reflects a face,
so a man's heart reflects the man.

-Proverbs 27:19