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Hey Guys and Dolls,

As we come close to bringing this Fall Season of LIFE groups to a close, I thought it would be good to reflect on friendships. God has given us the wonder-filled opportunity to share friendship with Him and with a few of His favorites. You have had these few months to perhaps enter into one of the great mysteries of life. Friendship. I hope you all find the relationships that will challenge and reward you as we walk together through LIFE. Be blessed!

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. Oren Arnold

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. St. Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. Henri Frederic Amiel

For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends. Arthur S. Hardy

All things need watching, working at, caring for and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be treated indifferently, or abused or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention care and concern and especially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life. Richard L. Evans

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us. D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930, British Author

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 1941-, American Author, Publicist

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 1941-, American Author, Publicist

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same. Anonymous

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. Chinese Proverb

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. Francoise d'Aubign Maintenon