Inspirational Quotes on Friendship

“Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.”

“I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.”

“Put up your sword. If this young gentleman Have done offence, I take the fault on me...”

“It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated”

“When you confess your sin to another Christian...The expressed, acknowledged sin has lost all it's power...The sinner is no longer alone with his evil for he has cast off his sin in confession and handed it over to God. It has been taken away from him. Now he stands in the fellowship of sinners who live by the grace of God in the cross of Jesus Christ. Now he can be a sinner and still enjoy the grace of God. He can confess his sins and in his very act find fellowship for the first time. The sin concealed separated him from the fellowship, made all his apparent fellowship a sham; the sin confessed has helped him to find true fellowship with the brethren in Jesus Christ.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, life together”

“To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.”

“Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God--it is a sign your faith is deteriorating.”

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

“Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.”

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

“Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.”

“Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.”

“God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults.”

“It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be with in eternity.”

“Make not thy friends too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend.”

“If thou would'st be borne with, then bear with others.”

“Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.”

“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.”

“A good friend is my nearest relation.”

“Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.”