Pastoral Resources

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Friends are thieves of time.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.