Ask your friends what God has been teaching you about himself. Small groups can also be useful for facilitating these kinds of relationships.

Churches don't need programs so much as they need cultures of discipling, cultures where each member prioritizes the spiritual health of others.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

Men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together'.

Friends are a comfort in misfortune but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy...

Really, Watson, you excel yourself, said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.

Now, Watson,' said Holmes, (...) 'you'll come with me, won't you?' 'If I can be of use.' 'Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use. And a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.' (...) 'You have a grand gift of silence, Watson,' said he. 'It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. Pon my word, it is a great thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are not over-pleasant.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.