Pastoral Resources

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.

I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.