When Love Is Fair

Love is fair when it builds up both the lover and the beloved, when it increases both and diminishes neither, when it brings them close and lets them ...

Giving Fifty Percent

A young family regularly sits behind my parents during morning worship. Every Sunday when the offering is taken, the father gives each of his children ...

No Escape from Other People

Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder ... wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker. ... There is no escape--man drags ...

The Value of Friendship

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Friends Bring out the Best

A friend is one who makes me do my best.

Linus and Lucy and Encouragement

The king of the comics, as far as I'm concerned, is still Peanuts by Charles Schulz. I love Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, Pigpen, the Little Red-Haired ...

The Needs of the Sick

Sick people need human touch most of all and get it least.

Different Kinds of Nakedness

Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.

Humor: Just Being Friendly

One morning as I walked down the driveway to our mailbox, I noticed a stranger walking up the neighbor's drive. He called out, "Hi, lady."

Wanting to be ...

An Attractive Spirit

You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit ...