Quotes about Friendship

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

God sends people into our lives just when we need them, to say the right word, His word, just when we need it.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.