For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
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.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.