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Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...

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We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

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But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, 'Ye ...more

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Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

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In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

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We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any...more

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Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases ...more

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For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one like hunting or fig...more

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Just as there are none good but God, and nothing good but goodness, so there are no loves but love its self, the very love; and that what I call the o...more

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As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it p...more

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In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into a...more

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We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

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I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like...more

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When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very...more

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Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .