Pastoral Resources

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.