In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Believer, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. The Father, who said to the disciples, 'Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Believing friends, 'Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.' The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which the Father reveals to each of us the beauties of others.
C. S. Lewis
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