Top 100 Quotes About God's Friendship
#1. I have a suspicion that you are all mad,' said Dr. Renard, smiling sociably; 'but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship.
G.K. Chesterton
#2. Your love for your friend should be grounded in Me, and for My sake you should love whoever seems to be good and is very dear to you in this life. Without Me friendship has no strength and cannot endure. Love which I do not bind is neither true nor pure.
Thomas A Kempis
#3. No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.
Shannon L. Alder
#4. Some roads we travel in life can feel like the ones that might break us, but that's why God surrounds us with people who will cheer us on and wipe our tears and listen as we pour out our hearts. Because often, it's not what you say but what you do that really matters.
Melanie Shankle
#5. Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds
Randy Mitchell
#7. I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.
Ted Turner
#8. Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already ... this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
Oswald Chambers
#9. 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 friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#10. We need to build a Biblical friendship, a friendship established on the principles of God's Word.
Gary Inrig
#11. Friends change. Enemies change. Acquaintances change. God alone does not change.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#12. Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry ... Friendship ... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.
Robert Burns
#13. Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me."
Ibn Ata Allah
#14. Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
Walter Savage Landor
#15. Locating friendship at the heart of mission involves certain assumptions
that reconciliation with God is something for which every human being is made and relationships are reciprocal.
Christopher Heuertz
#16. The only way to move from your reality to God's reality is through people who love you.
Shannon L. Alder
#17. Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Elizabeth George
#18. A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times.
Elizabeth George
#19. Happiness held is the beginning; happiness shared is the blossom
Abhysheq Shukla
#20. God, you're sucking all the fun out of our friendship.
S.C. Stephens
#21. If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#22. If we take care of our neighbors,
our neighbors will take care of us.
If we take care of our friends,
our friends will take care of us.
If we take care of our family,
our family will take care of us.
If we take care of others,
our God will take care of us.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#24. The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.
Rick Warren
#26. Here's the thing- I love you and I love her, but I swear to God I'll kick your ass if you hurt her.
Katie McGarry
#27. friendship with God is the entire goal of the Christian life.
Lauren F. Winner
#28. Sometimes you can look back on times in your life and know that God was guiding you even when you didn't know you were supposed to be listening.
Melanie Shankle
#29. Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#30. Since we were restored to friendship with God by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be delivered from eternal punishment by his life. ROMANS 5:10 NLT
Rick Warren
#31. Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.
Richard Hovey
#32. God is always the first one there when we fall,
but most of us don't look up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#33. The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#34. I offer it to you because there exists not only comradeship, but a very different thing, called friendship; an agreement under all the arguments and a thread which, please God, will never break.
G.K. Chesterton
#35. A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.
Horace Bushnell
#36. Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.
John Calvin
#37. Love is helping people toward the greatest beauty, the highest value, the deepest satisfaction, the most lasting joy, the biggest reward, the most wonderful friendship, and the most overwhelming worship - love is helping people toward God.
John Piper
#38. What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear. Not to mention sing.
She hum a little more. Something come to me, she say. Something I made up. Something you help scratch out my head.
Alice Walker
#39. Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together.
Herbert Mason
#40. Because unity and friendship is so precious that even God wants to be part of it.
Noah Weinberg
#41. The Bible talks primarily of two kinds of angels- Cherubim and Seraphim. But there is a third kind of angel. If you ever find yourself troubled, suffering or in despair, God may send you this third type of angel. These angels are called ... 'friends.
Jose N. Harris
#42. Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.
Shauna Niequist
#43. Remind me to thank God I don't have a sister."
Caine eyed him critically. He was a filthy heap of blood and soot and sand stuck to the gun oil on his face. "Yeah," without much enthusiasm. "I'll thank Him for ya.
V.S. Carnes
#44. God is the reason I'm surviving, but he's sure used you in my life wonderfully. I love you.
Esther Earl
#45. My story has more than a "great white hope" plot. I loved and respected Tom because he was a servant of God who happened to be white, just as I feel I am a servant of God who happens to be black and from Africa.
Francis Mandewah
#46. 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.
Jonathan Edwards
#47. When God forgives, there is an immediate and
complete change in relationship. Instead of hostility, there is love and acceptance. Instead of enmity, there is friendship.
Billy Graham
#48. I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.
La India
#49. We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#50. [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
Timothy Keller
#51. For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Teresa Of Avila
#52. Friendship with the world removes God's protection and His covering from us.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect - like the waves of the ocean.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#54. Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.
Thomas Hughes
#55. We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.
Austin O'Malley
#56. True sacrifice is the offering of self so that God can realize the power of creativity, compassion and friendship in and through your life.
Keith Ward
#57. Hope and God were buddies. Theirs was not a formal relationship steeped in ritual and tradition. It was more of a close yet casual friendship.
Augusten Burroughs
#58. Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
Teresa Of Avila
#59. Perhaps when she'd become disillusioned with God, she'd become disillusioned with many things: love, loyalty, friendship. They were all somehow connected.
Christy Barritt
#60. Authentic community is the sweet aroma of the gifts offered to our Lord on the day of His birth.
Alan De Jager
#61. Sex is like God, really. I know they're both important, but if I think about them too much my head hurts." -The Best Kept Secret
Wendi Nunnery
#62. If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
Erica Jong
#63. It doesn't matter how many friends I have because my best friend is God. And, he is a Super Friend. People come and people go, but God's love for you will remain the same. Embrace it, Cherish it, and Spread it everywhere you go. Let your light shine brightly for all the world to see.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#64. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture. It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship, but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#65. Life has always been about God winning. He will send you a miracle that will take you through the conflict in your life into a better situation that will create the most peace in the world
if you only believe.
Shannon L. Alder
#67. Eyes speak louder than words; life is precious; hate is poison; God is the best of all possible friends; silence and time are valuable treasures; happiness can be just as powerful in pretend; and soft licorice is a temptation in any color, especially exotic black.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#68. A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.
Scott Dikkers
#69. All his reckless, whimsical, sensual testing of the world throughout the years had been a search for what he knew with her. Passion and peace. Laughter and combat and friendship. God, but he loved her. It was an immensely humbling, enormous, radiant thing.
Julie Anne Long
#70. May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
Voltaire
#71. I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.
Anna White
#72. Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.
Sarah Dessen
#73. I'd like to propose to you that revelation is not the product of laborious study, but it is the fruit of friendship with God.
Kris Vallotton
#74. Because sometimes .. god gifts are not extra money , properties , or even beauty ... sometimes it's just a remembrance from an old friend when you really need it.
and that's just priceless !
Anonymous
#75. There is a miracle called Friendship
that dwells within the heart
and you don't know how it happens
or when it even starts.
But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift
and you realize that Friendship
is God's most precious gift.
Jean Kyler McManus
#76. It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.
Stephen King
#77. Questions to ask yourself: Are you a good teacher? Who would know? You would. Your students. Your friends. Your God. Not a bad audience, that!
Joe J. Christensen
#78. The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.
Paul C. Nagel
#79. 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to develop any friendship...whether with a loved one or with God Himself.
James C. Dobson
#80. God's friendship gave such a value and meaning to his life that he had something to sing about.
Vishal Mangalwadi
#81. The life mission God gave you was only appointed to you. If you are faithful, God will send someone into your life to support it. If your are blessed, he will send someone who shares your passion. If you are chosen, he will unlock every door that stands in your way.
Shannon L. Alder
#82. Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#83. Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.
Mark Driscoll
#84. Flora had once told her that 'Friendship is God's way of apologising for our families'.
A.J. Waines
#85. God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warriors for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.
Nicky Gumbel
#87. Do I have to thank Colleen again? God, I'm so sick of thanking Colleen. Shit, she's so great, you know? Thank you, Colleen. You've made a circus out of our friendship. Filthy Muggle.
Tarryn Fisher
#88. God's time is slow, patient, and kind and welcomes friendship; it is a way of being in the fullness of time that is not determined by productivity, success, or linear movements toward personal goals. It is a way of love, a way of the heart.
John Swinton
#89. Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.
Amy Grant
#90. What kind of relationship do you have if you never carve out time for the other person? One that is superficial and unsatisfying for both parties. That's why prayer, or intentional time with God, is important if you want a relationship, a friendship, with God.
James Martin
#91. Oh God, this is my fantasy! Where those just-friend boys suddenly realize they love me.'
'I don't know if this was like that.'
'What happened?'
He thought for a moment. 'Well. I realized I loved her.'
Hannah gasped. 'Oh God, that's so sweet.
Cammie McGovern
#92. Talk a walk with me through nature and let's gaze on the marvelous wonders of creation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#93. There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#94. After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.
Jim George
#95. The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
Jay McInerney
#96. It was as though God's hand was reaching down to Anna, and she was reaching her hands to Harvey and Joe, creating a circle of love.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#97. You could refer to me as god and the odd curtsey wouldn't go a miss either
R.S. Burnett
#98. God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
Ray Bradbury
#99. We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.
Allen Johnson
#100. We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
Thomas Aquinas
