January 24, 2012

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time...
by suffering or silence.
It is in these things that it roots most deeply.
It is from these things that it flowers.
                                     Author Unknown

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 20, 2012

Indeed, we do not really live unless we
have friends surrounding us like a firm
wall against the winds of the world.
                      -Charles Hanson Towne

January 19, 2012

A friend is one who incessantly pays
us the compliment of expecting
from us all the virtues, and who
can appreciate them in us.
                -Henry David Thoreau

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