Cross-Sex Friendship Quote of the Week

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September 11, 2009

Cross-Sex Friendship Quote of the Week

"If a husband plays tennis with a neighbor's wife on Saturday mornings, he need not be a candidate for incipient infidelity...Only those who suspect that every friendship between a man and woman has sexual intercourse as its natural goal will label every friendship as adultery of intent. The line between tolerable friendships can be recognized not by rules but by imaginative discernment."

Lewis Smedes

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Cross-Sex Friendship Quote of the Week

"Our avoidance of sexuality has cost us more than can ever be calculated." Vinita Hampton Wright

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Quotes on Friendship

"Heaven, the essentiality of being, where everything achieves its full authenticity, is already close to us in friendship." Ladislaus Boros
"Few things are as healing and life-giving as is friendship between woman and man, man and woman." Ronald Rolheiser
"A man needs something which is more than friendship and yet is not love as it is generally understood. This something nevertheless a woman only can give." Mark Rutherford
"Few things are likelier to kill a friendship quicker than a careful and strictly adhered-to-theory of what qualities are needed in friend. " Joseph Epstein
"A soul mate doesn't have to be a sex mate." Lisa Gee
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest things we know." Emerson
"Prayer together is the foundation of redemptive friendships." D. Michael Henderson
"Friendship is the place where forgiveness begins." John Swinton
"Authentic friendship is notoriously different and inescapably risky. True friendships are not relationships we control but adventures we enter into." Paul Wadell
"It is more important who they are as people and only then it is important who they are as dancers." Marcia Haydee
"There is a love that does not desire to possess. It is called friendship. When friendship is the determining force in a relationship, individuals are able to find themselves and a passion for life, not merely lose themselves in love." Mark Vernon
"In this kingdom the distinctions and barriers between male and female were to be broken down...to actualize the potential of any love--in this case a male and female love of friendship--can be to participate in the building of a kingdom of love...spiritual friendships shared by men and women can be eschatological signs." Wendy Wright
"Friendship defies reduction." Mary E Hunt
"Friendship forms. Friendship is a much underestimated aspect of spirituality. It's every bit as significant as prayer and fasting. Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what is common in human experience and turns it into something holy." Eugene Peterson
"The radical power of the best of friendships is that they empower us to break free from the destructive fantasies and ideologies of our culture in order to begin something better." Paul Wadell