Quotes About Friendliness

The modern Christian feels professionally obligated to act jovially and jokingly, to show his teeth in a cheerful grin, to profess a slavering friendliness, in order to prove to the unbeliever that Christianity is not a "somber" religion, a "pessimistic" doctrine, an "ascetic" morality. The progressive Christian shakes our hand with the wide grin of a politician running for office.

For the rest, he was large and good-natured, and had a habit of amusing himself with occasional spells of knitting.

Why is he being so nice? He is friendly--too friendly. No one is nice just for the sake of it these days, not unless he wants something.

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

Why did he pick me? There were five other laps present, all of them more friendly than mine. It's that sort of coincidental behavior of cats that upsets people. It raises the question: did he know I was the guy who had to be won over? But won over to what?