O my friends, it is not enough that the object of your duties is spiritual, that they respect a holy God or that the matter is spiritual, that you be conversant about holy things; but that the frame of your heart must be spiritual, a heavenly temper of soul is necessary.
—John Flavel
Happy is the Christian that has a little band of friends that meet together regularly for prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, Jesus loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God’s grace.
—D. L. Moody
My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer, we have got to be closeted with God.
—D. L. Moody
My friends, I tell you it makes all the difference in the world whether a man believes a truth or a lie.
—D. L. Moody
Our strength will fail us. The strength of our friends will fail us. If we trust in our money it will take wings and fly away. If we trust in the love of our friends, they will leave us. A mother may forget her child, but God will never forget us.
—D. L. Moody
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
—Oscar Wilde
A cowardly friend is worse than an enemy, since you take precautions against your enemy, but you rely upon your friend.
—Leo Tolstoy
Prefer the company of a stranger who loves the truth to the company of a friend who doesn’t.
—Leo Tolstoy
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
—Sigmund Freud
No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
—Julius Caesar
“You are beloved of the Lord, and a friend of the Son of God!”
“[…]you have the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Friend, your Divine Companion; you are going to sit and feast with him presently at his own table.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If Christ is pleased to send forth his Spirit to manifest his love, and speaks friendly to the soul, it will support it even in the the greatest outward torment that man can inflict.
—Jonathan Edwards
O my friend, let us still wrestle with God, that we may be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the LORD.
—George Whitefield
There are a lot of evil people around, and that’s because they have no friends. Communication with people – with mom, grandmother, a dog – is the best thing that happens to you in this life. Not counting shoes and bags, of course.
—Taras Shevchenko
There are no good friends, no bad friends, there are only people you want to be with, who you need to be with, and who have found a place in your heart.
—Taras Shevchenko
It only takes a growl and a stiff-legged scratch to turn a friendly butt-sniffing into a dog fight.
—Peter R. Rose