♥ True Friendship Quotes ♥
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” William Shakespeare
“A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.” Anonymous
“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.” Jim Morrison
“We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.” Margaret Guenther
“When you love, you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.” Ernest Hemingway
“A friend shares the good times and helps out by listening during the bad times.” Molly Oliver
“A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.” H. Jackson Brown
“True relationship: Love without condition, talk without intention, listen without judging, give without reason and care without expectation.” Anonymous
“A true friend loves
regardless of the situation…”
Proverbs 17:17 VOICE
We fall short of being true friends in so many ways, don’t we?
It can hurt so deeply when those we thought were “friends” betray, slander, or reject us. But we have to guard our hearts from bitterness or from putting up walls that won’t let anyone in or let any of our love out. It’s hard, isn’t it?
♥ Ultimate Friendship ♥
There will always be one Totally True Friend. Jesus always has and always will remain faithful and steadfast. He knows our deepest secrets, and yet He will never betray us. He loves us without condition. He doesn’t condemn us, even when we have hurt Him. He has paid the ultimate sacrifice for us, and He will never, never, never leave us or forsake us.
“There must be Someone in heaven who knows the truth about me,
in highest heaven, some Attorney who can clear my name—
My Champion, my Friend,
while I’m weeping my eyes out before God.
I appeal to the One who represents mortals before God
as a neighbor stands up for a neighbor.”
Job 16:19-21 The Message
“One who has unreliable friends
soon comes to ruin,
but there is a friend
who sticks closer than a brother.”
Proverbs 18:24
“I have told you these things so that
you will be filled with My joy.
Yes, your joy will overflow!
This is My commandment:
Love each other in the same way I have loved you.
There is no greater love than to
lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
John 15:11-13
“What a Friend”
by Matt Maher
“What A Friend We Have in Jesus”
Sung by Paul Baloche
Freed to Fly 