The beauty of the soul

As love grows within you, so beauty grows; for love is the beauty of the soul.
--Saint Augustine

A true friend

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.  

~William Penn

The gift

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.”

 

--Thomas Hughes

God's Love

“Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.”

--C. S. Lewis

Faith

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”

-Rabindranath Tagore

The way we are

“God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.”

--Leighton Ford

Teaching

“By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.”

--Latin proverb