Quotes about Friendship

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

It's more important to know whom you are called to be with than what you are called to do.

Another dynamic at work here is how friends, family, and church members would handle it if they knew what you were thinking. Feeling judged and banished is a common story among those who take a risk to let people in on their well-guarded secret.

The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you

After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.

Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.

She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”

“Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.

When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.

After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.