#ship

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#gandhi #god #mohandas #prayer #religion

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. ↗

— Henry J. Kaiser

#clothes #only #opportunities #problems #work

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#materialism #security #stewardship #faith

Listen to me, Amin," I said slowly. "Listen to me very carefully. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ever be the same again. There lives on this earth a woman who can be my friend and my lover. Do you understand that? Do you understand what a marvelous thing that is?" "A friend is a friend," Uthman interrupted, "and a woman is a woman. You can't have them in one person. The whole world knows that." "If that's what the whole world knows, ...then the whole world is wrong. I believed the whole world, and I lost her. ↗

— Barbara Cohen

#love #wife #woman #women #friendship

Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them. ↗

— Dan Kimball

#church #introverts #prayer #spirituality #worship

When god created the horse, he said to the magnificent creature: I have made thee as no other. All the treasures of the earth lie between thy eyes. Thy shalt carry my friends upon thy back. Thy saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And thou shalt fly without wings, and conquer without sword; oh horse. ↗

— Anonymous

#horses #religious #spirit #spirituality #friendship

A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you,' and really wants to hear the truth. ↗

— Tonny K. Brown

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What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words? ↗

— Richard Russo

#friendship #friendship

We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us. ↗

— J. Lynn

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