Quotes about Friendship

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.

Be ye kind one to another.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

Behind the shutters, our friends of yesterday were probably waiting for the moment when they could loot our homes.

If I were to refuse to obey orders I should betray my living friends. And the living have more rights over us than the dead. You told me that yourself. Therefore choose life, it is written in the Scriptures. I have espoused the cause of the living, and that is no betrayal.

A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. "Young woman," said he. "You don't reconcile friends".

God might have given Adam another man to be his friend, to walk and talk and argue with if that was his pleasure. But Adam needed more than the companionship of the animals or the friendship of a man. He needed a helper, specially designed and prepared to fill that role. It was a woman God gave him, a woman, "meet," fit, suitable, entirely appropriate for him, made of his very bones and flesh.

I wonder if she allowed the man to see her eagerness and scared him? Possibly her failure to wait quietly caused him to curtail the friendship.

If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend!

A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times.