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We may not be able to prevent other people from being our enemies, but we can prevent ourselves from being enemies toward others.
- Warren Wiersbe

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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 Swindoll

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It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be within eternity.
- Thomas Fuller

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God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
- Billy Graham
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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
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Next to hypocrisy in religion, there is nothing worse than hypocrisy in friendship.
- Joseph Hall
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Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
- Proverbs
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Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.
- C.S. Lewis
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In matters of equity between man and man, our Savior has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
- Isaac Watts
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington
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[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
- Tim Keller
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As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
- 1 Samuel
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True friends face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
- C.S. Lewis
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
- Oswald Chambers
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
- George Washington
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Assorted Authors
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Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
- George Washington
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
- Blaise Pascal
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Show me a man's books and show me a man's companions--and I will tell you what sort of a man he is.
- William Tiptaft
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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.
- Dwight L. Moody
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Ultimate reality is a community of persons who know and love one another. That is what the universe, God, history, and life is all about. If you favor money, power, and accomplishment over human relationships, you will dash yourself on the rocks of reality.
- Tim Keller
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A friend cannot be known in prosperity. An enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.
- Jack Hyles
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A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.
- Tim Keller
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
- Zig Ziglar
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I am convinced, by the way, that friendships provide the most fertile soil for evangelism. When the reality of Christ is introduced into a relationship of love and trust that has already been established, the effect is powerful. And it seems that invariably, when someone becomes a true follower of Christ, that person's first impulse is to want to find a friend and introduce that friend to Christ.
- John MacArthur
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
- Blaise Pascal
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
- C.S. Lewis
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If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
- Amy Carmichael
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When the great end of the day comes, the greatest joy of all will be the joy of knowing you have tried to make somebody else's life happy.
- Gipsy Smith
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He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
- Jeremy Taylor
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To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
- Samuel Rutherford
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Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
- Frederick W. Faber
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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
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A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
- William Penn
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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
- Francis Bacon
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Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do, so shalt thou be thy greatest friend.
- Jeremy Taylor
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.