Quotes about Friend
Many think of Jesus as their Savior, yet never realize that Jesus ought to be their friend and guide and keeper all day long, their leader and master whom they gladly obey. Many Christians might talk about Him, yet not know what it means to walk with Him.
— Andrew Murray
That a child obtains what he asks from his father looks so perfectly natural, we almost count it the father's duty to give. But with a friend, it is as if the kindness is more free, dependent not on nature but on sympathy and character....But then we must be living as His friends. I am still a child even when a wanderer, but friendship depends upon the conduct.
— Andrew Murray
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
— Henri Nouwen
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
— Thomas Monson
We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.
— JI Packer
Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
— William Temple
Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Never fear to go to God, since we have such a Mediator with him, who is not only our friend but our brother and husband
— Richard Sibbes
Is God our friend, our provider, our protector, our father—or is God the kind of judge who may in the end declare that we deserve to spend forever separated from our Father? Is God like the characters in a story Jesus would tell, old ladies who keep searching for the lost coin until they find it, shepherds who don't rest until that one sheep is back in the fold, fathers who rush out to greet and embrace their returning son, or, in the end, will God give up?
— Rob Bell
The Lord Jesus Christ is our partner, helper and advocate.
— Joseph Wirthlin
When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.
— Abraham Kuyper
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson