Precept and Practice – AUGUST 2 – Plain Dealing
Sincerity seems our only security against losing those who love us, the only cup in which those who are worth keeping will care to pledge us when youth is past.
Sincerity seems our only security against losing those who love us, the only cup in which those who are worth keeping will care to pledge us when youth is past.
The aim of true friendship anywhere is not to make life easy for one’s friend, but to make something of the friend.
It isn’t your mind that is needed here, or what you know; it is your heart and what you feel.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
Friendship is the forest to which we flee from the city of toil.
Tyranny is always weakness.
The parable of the Rich Fool, and in fact the whole of Luke Chapter 12, is not about money, nor about bread, nor even about barns. It is about being, ‘rich towards God’ and so proving the faithfulness and loving kindness of God by living generous lives of active service. And being ever-ready to do so….
Our friendships are often clouded, especially in youth, by want of sympathy from our own people.
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
But to get this real profit from persons one must really meet them, not merely encounter – ‘meet’ them and not merely their outsides.