"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition, it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly, be that kind of a friend for your friends."


~ Mark Twain

"Man, from being a friend of his fellowman, becomes the friend of God."


"Friendship is nothing else but wisdom."


~Aeldred of Rievaulx

"We must never confuse witnessing with 'soul-winning.' Jesus made it unmistakably clear that it is the domain of the Holy Spirit to convict the world 'of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement,' and we must never abrogate the work of the Holy Spirit (John16:8, KJV). God alone 'wins the soul.' We are simply and solely witnesses to how good God is and to what transforming things he has done in us. No more, no less."


~Richard J. Foster

"Jesus was never as 'spiritual' as some of his later followers. He never forgot nor belittled the elemental need of men for bread."


~Walter Rauschenbusch, writing about the Lord's Prayer