Friendship Quotes
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Everybody's concept of having a friend is different. It can definitely blur the relationships that exist between people. But in the end, I think that Facebook can only reinforce preexisting communities.
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve, there is scant a friend in that company.
It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
A good way to grow in friendship with Christ is by listening to his word. The Lord speaks to us in the depths of our conscience, he speaks to us through Sacred Scripture, he speaks to us in prayer. Learn to stay before him in silence, to read and meditate on the Bible, especially the Gospels, to converse with him every day in order to feel his presence of friendship and love.
In this preaching, which is always respectful and gentle, the first step is personal dialogue, when the other person speaks and shares his or her joys, hopes and concerns for loved ones, or so many other heartfelt needs. Only afterwards is it possible to bring up God's word, perhaps by reading a Bible verse or relating a story, but always keeping in mind the fundamental message: the personal love of God who became man, who gave himself up for us, who is living and who offers us his salvation and his friendship.
Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.
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