Read About Friendship No. 1
Each week, the Read About Friendship series features a well-known author and his or her writings on friendship. Feel free to submit other quotes and info about these authors, or to suggest authors for future posts, in the comments section.
C.S. Lewis on Friendship
“Many chapters ago I mentioned a boy who lived near us and who had tried, quite unsuccessfully, to make friends with my brother and myself. His name was Arthur and he was my brother’s exact contemporary; he and I had been at Campbell together though we never met. I think it was shortly before the beginning of my last term at Wyvern that I received a message saying that Arthur was in bed, convalescent, and would welcome a visit. I can’t remember what led me to accept this invitation, but from some reason I did.
I found Arthur sitting up in bed. On the table beside him lay a copy of Myths of Norsemen.
Do you like that? said I.
Do you like that? said he.
Next moment the book was in our hands, our heads were bent close together, we were pointing, quoting, talking–soon almost shouting–discovering in a torrent of questions that we liked not only the same thing, but the same parts of it and in the same way; that both knew the stab of joy and that, for both, the arrow was shot from the North.
Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder…as first love, or even a greater. …Nothing, I suspect, is more astonishing in any man’s life than the discovery that there do exist people very, very like himself“
–Surprised by Joy, pgs. 130-131.
Amy Bennett September 6, 2012 (3:37 pm)
Gosh, I love CS Lewis so much. Great quote. I’m reading Bonhoeffer right now and I can’t imagine he wouldn’t have a great quote somewhere.
Joanna September 7, 2012 (8:17 am)
A quote I love about friendship is this one from Shauna Niequist’s book Cold Tangerines
“Friendship is acting out God’s love for people in tangible ways. We were made to represent the love of God in each other’s lives, so that each person we walk through life with has a more profound sense of God’s love for them. Friendship is an opportunity to act on God’s behalf in the lives of the people that we’re close to, reminding each other who God is. When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life. We get to remind one another about the bigger, more beautiful picture that we can’t always see from where we are.”
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