Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
– 1 Corinthians 15:33
Friendship
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
– Chuck Swindoll
Friendship | The Heart | Joy
We may not be able to prevent other people from being our enemies, but we can prevent ourselves from being enemies toward others.
– Warren Wiersbe
Friendship | Enemies
The ones who disappoint you need you the most.
– Jack Hyles
Friendship
Love is friendship set on fire.
– Jeremy Taylor
Love | Friendship | Fire
It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be within eternity.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship | Eternity
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
– Benjamin Franklin
Friendship
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
– Billy Graham
Relationships | Friendship | The Future
Four of the Ten Commandments deal with our relationship to God while the other six deal with our relationships with people. But all ten are about relationships.
– Rick Warren
Friendship | Relationships
In matters of equity between man and man, our Savior has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
– Isaac Watts
Friendship | Giving
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
– 1 Samuel
Friendship
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
– George Washington
Friendship
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
– Assorted Authors
Friendship
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
– Blaise Pascal
Friendship | Gossip
The way you see people is the way you treat them.
– Zig Ziglar
Friendship
True friends face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
– C.S. Lewis
Friendship | Goals
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
– Helen Keller
Friendship
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
– Proverbs
Friendship
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Hypocrisy | Friendship
Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
– George Washington
Friendship | Examples
Next to hypocrisy in religion, there is nothing worse than hypocrisy in friendship.
– Joseph Hall
Hypocrisy | Friendship
Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.
– C.S. Lewis
Love | Friendship
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship
[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
– Tim Keller
Friendship | Love | Marriage
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
– Dwight L. Moody
Jesus | Friendship
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
– Helen Keller
Friendship
Ultimate reality is a community of persons who know and love one another. That is what the universe, God, history, and life is all about. If you favor money, power, and accomplishment over human relationships, you will dash yourself on the rocks of reality.
– Tim Keller
Friendship | Relationships
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
– George Washington
Friendship | Character | Men
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
– Zig Ziglar
Friendship
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers
Friendship | Jesus
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
– Blaise Pascal
Friendship | Gossip
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
– Helen Keller
Achievement | Friendship
If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
– Amy Carmichael
Friendship | Goals
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
– Jeremy Taylor
Friendship | Zeal
A friend will not try to change your convictions.
– Jack Hyles
Friendship | Conviction
Silence between friends says that one’s presence is enough.
– Jack Hyles
Friendship
To believe Christ’s cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
– Samuel Rutherford
Faith | Friendship | The Cross
Many a friendship – long, loyal, and self-sacrificing – rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
– Frederick W. Faber
Friendship
Show me a man’s books and show me a man’s companions–and I will tell you what sort of a man he is.
– William Tiptaft
Books | Friendship
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
– Helen Keller
Friendship
There is a brotherhood within the body of believers, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the common denominator. Friendship and fellowship are the legal tender among believers.
– J. Vernon McGee
Christians | Friendship | Fellowship
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
– Francis Bacon
Friendship | Laughter
Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do, so shalt thou be thy greatest friend.
– Jeremy Taylor
Friendship | Enemies
A friend cannot be known in prosperity. An enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.
– Jack Hyles
Friendship | Prosperity | Adversity
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Friendship | Enemies
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
– C.S. Lewis
Friendship
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
– C.S. Lewis
Friendship
When the great end of the day comes, the greatest joy of all will be the joy of knowing you have tried to make somebody else’s life happy.
– Gipsy Smith
Friendship
If thou would’st be borne with, then bear with others.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship | Discretion
When you break someone down–make sure you always raise them up higher than they were before.
– Duane Chapman
Friendship
Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.
– Thomas Fuller
Love | Friendship | Enemies
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.
– Francis Bacon
Friendship
Never be a judge between thy friends in any matter where both set their hearts upon the victory. If strangers or enemies be litigants, whatever side thou favorest, thou gettest a friend; but when friends are the parties thou losest one.
– Jeremy Taylor
Friendship | Enemies | Judging
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.
– Jim Elliot
Friendship | Humility | Women
It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.
– Frederick Buechner
Friendship
All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.
– William Carey
Friendship | God
I can only hope that every minister could come to know friends as true, as faithful, and as genuine as I have come to know in C. J., Mark, and Lig. We are exhilarated in being together, and we take tremendous delight in each other. One of the problems we face in today’s church is that men are not often sustained by authentic friendships. This is especially deadly for pastors.
– Albert Mohler
Friendship
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Friendship | Laughter
Man and wife are equally concerned to avoid all offense of each other in the beginning of their conversation. A little thing can blast an infant blossom.
– Jeremy Taylor
Friendship | Romance
If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
– Amy Carmichael
Friendship
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
– Thomas Aquinas
Friendship
It was the saying of a heathen though no heathenish saying, “That he, who would be good, must either have a faithful friend to instruct him, or a watchful enemy to correct him.
– William Secker
Friendship
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
– Abraham Kuyper
Friendship
When two friends part they should lock up one another’s secrets, and interchange their keys.
– Owen Feltham
Friendship
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Be who you are and be that well.
– Francis de Sales
Friendship | Forgiveness | Quarreling
From here it sounds great to say we’ll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I’ll be glad to see you.
– Assorted Authors
Friendship
His subject thou art whom thou crownest in thy heart, and not whom thou flatterest with thy lips.
– William Gurnall
Friendship
God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship
The best mirror is an old friend.
– George Herbert
Friendship
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
– Francis Quarles
Friendship
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
– Tim Keller
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
– John Henry Newman
Friendship
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
– John Selden
Friendship
A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.
– Tim Keller
Friendship | Unity | Vision
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
– G.K. Chesterton
Friendship | Enemies
Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
– George Macdonald
Friendship | Money
A faithful friend is a truthful friend.
– Woodrow Kroll
Friendship
No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of his company.
– Jeremy Taylor
Friendship | Choices
Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
– Henry Drummond
Friendship
If I do not give a friend “The benefit of the doubt,” but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
– Amy Carmichael
Friendship
How often we say about our earthly friends, “I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them.” And shouldn’t we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.
– Hannah Whitall Smith
Friendship | Prayer
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship
Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy soul: he’ll be sure to aggravate thy adversity, and lessen thy prosperity. He goes always heavy loaded; and thou must bear half. He’s never in a good humor; and may easily get into a bad one, and fall out with thee.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship | Prosperity
Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy, sad soul. He will be sure to aggravate thine adversity and to lessen thy prosperity. He goes always heavily loaded, and thou must bear half.
– Francois Fenelon
Friendship | Prosperity
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
– Helen Keller
Friendship
God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself alone.
– Owen Feltham
GivingFriendship
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
– Charles Kingsley
Friendship
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend.
– Augustine
Friendship | Judging
When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.
– George Herbert
Friendship
The thing needed to women (and to men too) is these friendships without love between men and women. And if between married men and married women, all the better.
– Florence Nightingale
Friendship | Marriage | Women
Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.
– Tim Keller
Friendship
I am convinced, by the way, that friendships provide the most fertile soil for evangelism. When the reality of Christ is introduced into a relationship of love and trust that has already been established, the effect is powerful. And it seems that invariably, when someone becomes a true follower of Christ, that person’s first impulse is to want to find a friend and introduce that friend to Christ.
– John MacArthur
Friendship | Evangelism
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship
No man can expect to find a friend without faults, nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. Only the sober man can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.
– Owen Feltham
Friendship
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
– William Penn
Friendship
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Savior is unmerciful to himself.
– John Bunyan
Apathy | Friendship
A good friend is my nearest relation.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship