Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sound Of Silence” is one of the best songs of all time and was inspired by Sanford “Sandy” Greenberg, Art Garfunkel roomate and best friend who lost his vision. Sanford released a moving new memoir named “Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness into an Extraordinary Vision for Life”.
Showing posts with label friendship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friendship. Show all posts
"Knowing" means loving
“I know my sheep and mine know me”. “To know”, in the idiom of sacred Scripture, never refers to merely exterior knowledge, like the knowledge of someone’s telephone number. “Knowing” means being inwardly close to another person. It means loving him or her. We should strive to “know” men and women as God does and for God’s sake; we should strive to walk with them along the path of God's friendship.
--Benedict XVI, Homily at the closing of the Year for Priests, 11 June 2010
Just as respect without friendliness is not true respect, so friendliness without respect is not solid but will sometimes engender familiarities that are scarcely proper and will render that friendliness thin and changeable, which will not happen if friendliness is joined to respect and respect to friendliness.
Friendliness then is a virtue by which you bear witness to the love you have for everyone. Respect bears witness to the esteem in which you hold the person you respect. Friendliness comes from the heart, respect from the understanding. [p. 95]
(St Vincent de Paul. From Jacques Delarue, The Holiness of Vincent de Paul, Geoffrey Chapman Ltd, London 1960, 132 pp)
Friendship with Jesus is such a beautiful gift that it cannot be kept for oneself! Those who receive this gift feel the need to pass it on to others, and so when the gift is shared it is not reduced but rather is multiplied!
(Benedict XVI, Letter to the children of the Pontifical Missionary Childhood Society, Austria, 9 September 2007)
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