#ends

It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#jesus #love #relationship #friendship

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy. ↗

— Criss Jami

#christianity #enemies #fabrications #facts #flattery

You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#friendship

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#dead-people #writing #friendship

Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes. ↗

— John Green

#friendship

Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses? ↗

— William Faulkner

#best-friends #friendship #friendship

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#immortality #letter-writing #letters #the-mind #friendship

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#friendship

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents. ↗

— John Knowles

#shortcomings #friendship

But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. ↗