Quotes about Friendship

Hope is a better friend than despair.

Those who truly know you see your tears even in the rain.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

if you want to have a good friend, you first must be a good friend.

A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no faults. A martyr is someone who lives with a saint.

He has joy in our friendship and in our partnering together in the work of the kingdom with Him.

As John Piper puts it, "For people who are passing through the dark night of the soul, turnaround will come because God brings unwavering lovers of Christ into their lives who do not give up on them."24

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

when we share our sorrow, our sorrow is halved, and when we share our joy, our joy is doubled.

Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about.

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.

We expect God to be, as we might say, 'in charge': taking control, sorting things out, getting things done. But the God we see in Jesus is the God who wept at the tomb of his friend. The God we see in Jesus is the God-the-Spirit who groans without words. The God we see in Jesus is the one who, to demonstrate what his kind of 'being in charge' would look like, did the job of a slave and washed his disciples' feet.