Faithful Companionship Quotes

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.

Draw nigh to the righteous, and through them you will draw nigh to God. Communicate with those who possess humility, and you will learn morals from them. A man who follows one who loves God becomes rich in the mysteries of God; but he who follows an unrighteous and proud man gets far away from God, and will be hated by his friends.

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.

We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.

It is important to have friends we can trust. But it is essential to trust the Lord, who never lets us down.

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

I'm married, I've been married to the same woman for - well, I've been with the same woman for close to...long enough to fool around.

Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.