 In America, from the beginning, economic liberty, political justice, and shared friendship with God have been understood as compatible, even essentially linked, human goods. Author: Alan Keyes
Topics: America, God |
| If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Friendship |
| We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Weight of Glory
Topics: Friendship, Meditation |
| Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Friendship |
| Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Friendship |
| Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Friendship |
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| It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means. Author: Charles Kingsley
Topics: Friendship |
| The good man has his enemies. He would not be like his Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for the friendship of the world is enmity to God. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Treasury of David, Psalm 23.
Topics: Enemies |
| Whenever you make up your mind to refuse to go where God wants you to go and to do what God wants you to do, you must make up your mind at the same time to renounce the friendship of God. You cannot walk with Him and at the same time be in rebellion against Him. God has no possible way of entering into fellowship with the soul that is disobedient to His will. Believe me, it is absolutely useless, it is mere mockery, to say "Lord, Lord" and then refuse to do the things that He commands you to do. Author: Clovis G. Chappell
Topics: Backsliding |
| The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Author: Francis Bacon
Topics: Friendship |
| A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Be who you are and be that well. Author: Francis de Sales
Topics: Friendship, Forgiveness, Quarreling |
| That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. Author: Francis Quarles
Topics: Friendship |
| Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word. Author: Frederick W. Faber
Topics: Friendship |
| Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness. Author: G. Campbell Morgan
Topics: Weakness |
| Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. Author: George Herbert
Topics: Reading |
| But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms. Author: George Macdonald
Topics: Friendship, Money |
| True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. Author: George Washington
Topics: Friendship, Adversity |
| The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
Topics: Jesus, Holiness, Discipline |
| Friendship is the nearest thing we know to what religion is. God is love. And to make religion akin to Friendship is simply to give it the highest expression conceivable by man. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Changed Life, p. 49.
Topics: Friendship |
| Our companionship with Him, like all true companionship, is a spiritual communion. All friendship, all love, human and Divine, is purely spiritual. It was after He was risen that He influenced even the disciples most. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Changed Life, p. 38.
Topics: Friendship |
| How can modern men today make Christ, the absent Christ, their most constant companion still? The answer is that Friendship is a spiritual thing. It is independent of Matter, or Space, or Time. That which I love in my friend is not that which I see. What influences me in my friend is not his body but his spirit. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Changed Life, p. 37.
Topics: Friendship |
| It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Friendship |
| Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Friendship, Laughter |
| There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Family, Parents |
| 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. Author: J. Vernon McGee
Topics: Christians, Friendship, Fellowship |
| True friendship needs no reciprocation. Author: Jack Hyles
Topics: Friendship |
| Love is friendship set on fire. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Love, Friendship, Fire |
| Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Friendship |
| Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppression, the sanctuary of our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Friendship, Doubt |
| By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds of which brave men and women are capable. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Friendship, Women |
| She that hath a wise husband must entice him to an eternal dearness by the veil of modesty and the grave robes of chastity, the ornament of meekness, and the jewels of faith and charity. She must have no painting but blushings; her brightness must be purity, and she must shine round about with sweetness and friendship; and she shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Marriage, Modesty, Purity |
| A dreadful thing is the love of money! It disables both eyes and ears, and makes men worse to deal with than a wild beast, allowing a man to consider neither conscience nor friendship nor fellowship nor salvation. Author: John Chrysostom
Topics: Money, Fellowship, Men |
| We scarce conceive how easy it is to rob God of his due, in our friendship with the most virtuous persons, until they are torn from us by death. But if this loss produce lasting sorrow, that is a clear proof that we had before two treasures, between which we divided our heart. Author: John Wesley
Topics: Death |
| Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. Author: Jonathan Edwards
Topics: Prayer |
| If you know people in your church or your neighborhood that are facing adversity, I encourage you to offer a hand of friendship to them. That is what Jesus would do. Author: Jonathan Falwell
Topics: Adversity, Friendship |
| Next to hypocrisy in religion, there is nothing worse than hypocrisy in friendship. Author: Joseph Hall
Topics: Hypocrisy, Friendship |
| Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Author: Thomas Aquinas
Topics: Friendship |
| Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Author: Thomas Aquinas
Topics: Friendship, Justice |
| There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Author: Thomas Aquinas
Topics: Friendship |
| Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself out of breath. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Friendship |
| Friendship that flames goes out in a flash. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Friendship |
| There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Friendship |
| The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible. Author: William Barclay
Source: The Gospel of John, v. 1, p. 154.
Topics: Worship |
