2. Proverbs 13:20 ‘Walk with the wise and become wise, a companion of fools suffers harm.’

7. Proverbs 18:24 ‘One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,   but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.’

9. Proverbs 4:7 ‘The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom
Proverbs 4:7 ‘The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom.     Though it cost all you have, get understanding.’

10. Proverbs 24: ‘Eat honey, my son, for it is good;     honey from the comb is sweet to your taste. Know also that wisdom is like honey for you:     if you find it, there is a future hope for you,     and your hope will not be cut off.’

12. 2 Timothy 2:22 ‘… pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.’

14. Proverbs 16:33 ‘The lot is cast into the lap,     but its every decision is from the Lord.’

15. Proverbs 16:33 ‘The lot is cast into the lap,     but its every decision is from the Lord.’ Proverbs 21:31 ‘The horse is made ready for the day of battle,     but victory rests with the Lord.’

16. Proverbs 16:9 ‘In their hearts humans plan their course,     but the Lord establishes their steps.’

17. Proverbs 16:9 ‘In their hearts humans plan their course,     but the Lord establishes their steps.’ Proverbs 19:21 ‘Many are the plans in a person’s heart,     but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.’

19. CS Lewis, The Four Loves (1/5) ‘In friendship
CS Lewis, The Four Loves (1/5) ‘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.

20. CS Lewis, The Four Loves (2/5) ‘But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,” can truly say to every group of Christian friends, “You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.”

21. CS Lewis, The Four Loves (3/5) ‘The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

22. CS Lewis, The Four Loves (4/5) ‘They are no greater than the beauties of a thousand others; by Friendship God opens our eyes to them. They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and then, in a good Friendship, increased by Him through the Friendship itself, so that it is His instrument for creating as well as for revealing.

23. CS Lewis, The Four Loves (5/5) ‘At this feast it is he who has spread the board and it is He who has chosen the guests. It is He, we may dare to hope, who sometimes does, and always should, preside. Let us not reckon without our Host.’

25. Proverbs 24:30-34 ‘I went past the field of a sluggard,     past the vineyard of someone who has no sense; thorns had come up everywhere,     the ground was covered with weeds,     and the stone wall was in ruins. I applied my heart to what I observed     and learned a lesson from what I saw: a little sleep, a little slumber,     a little folding of the hands to rest – and poverty will come on you like a thief    and scarcity like an armed man.’

26. Proverbs 20:4 ‘Sluggards do not plough in season;     so at harvest time they look but find nothing.’

27. Proverbs 20:4 ‘Sluggards do not plough in season;     so at harvest time they look but find nothing.’ Proverbs 21:21 ‘Whoever pursues righteousness and love     finds life, prosperity and honour.’

28. Proverbs 20:4 ‘Sluggards do not plough in season;     so at harvest time they look but find nothing.’ Proverbs 21:21 ‘Whoever pursues righteousness and love     finds life, prosperity and honour.’ Proverbs 22:13 ‘The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside!     I’ll be killed in the public square!”’

29. Proverbs 27:1 ‘Do not boast about tomorrow,     for you do not know what a day may bring.’

30. Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 ‘Ship your grain across the sea;     after many days you may receive a return. Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight;     you do not know what disaster may come upon the land… ‘Whoever watches the wind will not plant;     whoever looks at the clouds will not reap… ‘Sow your seed in the morning,     and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed,     whether this or that,     or whether both will do equally well.’