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"‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

JESUS the CHRIST

No friendship is an accident. A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.
Enduring Affection. Esteem. Intimacy. Trust. Honesty. Loyalty. Compromise. Unconditional Favor.

Nuggets in a Nutshell

Oswald Chambers 

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners, I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Max Lucado 

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a wild image to me: once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

PROVERBS 

Perfume and incense make the heart glad, but the sweetness of a friend is a fragrant forest - a counsel to the soul.

"One who has unreliable friends soon come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."

"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity."

"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." 

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Octavia Butler

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

Job

"My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God; on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend."

"When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes, giving him twice as much as before."

Amen.

FRIENDSHIP WISDOM from Literary Works

from Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

from John Steinbeck - Of Mice And Men

"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why."

from Toni Morrison - Beloved

"She is a friend of my mind. She gathers me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and gives them back to me in all the right order."

from JK Rowling - Harry Potter, and the Sorcerer's Stone

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

from Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is, at last a drop which makes it run over, so, in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."

from Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

"Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?"

Isaiah, the Prophet

"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners."

Bishop Gene Robinson

"It's funny isn't it? That you can preach a judgmental and vengeful and angry God and nobody will mind. But you start preaching a God that is too accepting, too loving, too forgiving, too merciful, too kind . . . and you are in trouble."

Desmond Tutu

"You may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.."

"It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something."

- John Lewis