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“A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.”

Book:Christian Nurture

Work

Christian Nurture

This book explores various aspects of nurturing the faith and well-being of individuals within the Christian community, including spiritual practices, pastoral care, and theological insights. more

Author

Horace Bushnell

Horace Bushnell was an American religious leader and theologian, born on April 14, 1802, and died on February 17, 1876. He had a profound impact on the fields of religion and theology, particularly in the areas of Christian ethics and religious education. more

“It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.”

Thinking Years Important Guy Turns Courses Next Friendship Forget Wonder Prize Smarter Entitled Presidency Glamour Brilliance Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:George H. W. Bush

“For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .”

Littles Self Character Process Friendship Unfolding Self Confident Valued Friends

Book:Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.”

Men World Friendship This World My Friends Difficulty

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.”

Ifs Firsts Two Night Friendship Impossible Performances Opening Tickets Inviting Premieres Telegrams Opening Night Pygmalion

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.”

Ends Left Friendship Behinds Enemy Conflict Tests Nonviolence Left Behind Acid Rancor

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.”

Art Political Lying Language Friendship Enemy Propaganda Branches Deceiving

Author:Francis Cornford

“Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.”