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Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.
Thomas HughesTags: friends gifts beatitudes
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 HughesTags: beatitudes
...so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you see man or boy striving earnestly on the weak side, however wrong-headed or blundering he may be, you are not to go and join the cry against him. If you can't join him and help him, and make him wiser, at any rate remember that he has found something in the world which he will fight and suffer for....
Thomas HughesTags: majority-v-minority underdog
The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.
Thomas HughesTags: materialism charity discipleship
Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker.
Thomas HughesTags: romanticism childlikeness
We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and strength, striving against whatever was mean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little world. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warning from serene heights to those who were struggling and sinning below, but the warm, living voice of one who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves and one another.
Thomas HughesTags: education encouragement mentoring discipleship
Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.
Thomas HughesTags: influence peer-pressure
He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world;
Thomas HughesTags: fear cowardice spiritual-warfare self-discipline discipleship
A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered
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