Quotes about Friendship

Never make an intimate friend of anyone who is not a friend of God.

your soul is the one thing worth living for. It is the part of you which ought always be considered first. No place, no employment is good for you, which injures your soul. No friend, no companion deserves your confidence, who makes light of your soul's concerns.

He and sin must quarrel, if he and God are to be friends.

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Marriages built on friendship are forever since they are built on companionship.

I'd believe I had prayed about things, but in reality I'd only worried about them, talked to friends about them, and tried to figure out how to solve them myself.

The roots of this friendship that once nourished me in deep places now ache with a barren flow. The conversations and connections have been hollowed out and replaced with a stabbing throb of a pierced soul. The arrow dug deep.

Let your love for your friends, who are standing with you, and your love for the Lord, who wants you to honor Him in the way you treat your body, make you think it over.

Isn't it interesting that Jesus seemed to speak most intimately to people who were lonely?

You better believe when I walk into a conference now, I look for someone sitting alone and make sure she knows she is noticed. When I ease the loneliness ache in others it is beautifully eased in me.

Find a friend who can speak rationality into your irrational impulses. A friend who will hold you accountable, speak the truth in love, and pray for you.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.