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Quotes about Companionship

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.
- George Clooney
But it's better when you have somebody to go home to and talk about it with, somebody who is more in love with you than impressed by you.
- Donald Miller
Sometimes the real bonding happens in conversations about nothing, Don," she said. "Sometimes being willing to talk about nothing shows how much we want to be with each other. And that's a powerful thing.
- Donald Miller
When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.
- Donald Miller
Article that said in the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. The article went so far as to say relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet, or media consumption.
- Donald Miller
A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.
- Donald Miller
We didn't become the best of friends, but he was my best friend. By best friend I mean he was the best person for me to talk to. Every time I walked away from a beer or a lunch with him I was, somehow, a more centered person. He never let me control the conversation with distractions. He'd just laugh them off and repeat the question I was running from.
- Donald Miller
I think it is interesting that God designed people to need other people. We see those cigarette advertisements with the rugged cowboy riding around alone on a horse, and we think that is strength, when really, it is like setting your soul down on a couch and not exercising it. The soul needs to interact with other people to be healthy.
- Donald Miller
Never make an intimate friend of anyone who is not a friend of God.
- JC Ryle
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.
- JC Ryle
A man who is born again has a special love for all true disciples of Christ. Like his Father in heaven, he loves all men with a great general love, but he has a special love for those who share his faith in Christ. Like his Lord and Saviour, he loves the worst of sinners and could weep over them; but he has a peculiar love for those who are believers. He is never so much at home as when he is in their company.
- JC Ryle
They love us, heal us, teach us, make us laugh and sometimes break our hearts with their passing.
- Jack Canfield