“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 Swindoll1
“Love is friendship set on fire.” – Jeremy Taylor
“Friendship is the happiest and most fully human of all loves, the crown of life.” – C. S. Lewis
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” – Benjamin Franklin
“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
“Next to hypocrisy in religion, there is nothing worse than hypocrisy in friendship.” – Joseph Hall
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
“God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.” – Billy Graham
“The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.” – C. S. Lewis
“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
“He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.” – Abraham Kuyper
“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Augustine
“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
“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.” – D. L. Moody
“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.” – Francis Bacon
“The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.” – Oswald Chambers
“[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.” – Tim Keller
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