Quotes about Companionship

The trouble with my wife began when she needed Jesus and I needed a cat.

He wanted her in that room with him giving him the balance he was losing, the ballast and counterweight to the stone of sorrow New York City had given him.

Christian identity, the role disciples have been called to play, requires being with others. It takes two or three gathered in Christ's name fully to represent him. It takes a company.

God knew the man needed someone to join him in the walk of faith, to shoulder the burdens of the mission, engage in the struggles, watch his back, and stand with him against the Enemy. God had the perfect answer in mind.

The book of Ruth proves the point. "It is not good for the man to be alone" (Gen 2:18). The point being that men actually need their sisters to step up and answer God's call on their lives.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

We're all in this together ... alone.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

Even if you choose someone who is not necessarily the love of your life, married life will be better than what you have now, with just your father and yourself. It is not good to sleep alone night after night.

All I hope, Dean, is someday we'll be able to live on the same street with our families and get to be a couple of oldtimers together.