“The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”
Good friends are hard to find and worth holding onto. These quotes celebrate the people who show up, tell you the truth, and stick around when things get difficult — the chosen family that makes life richer.
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”
“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.”
“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.”
“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
“The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.”
“But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.”
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.”
“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”