Friendship With God Quotes:

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

- William Temple

topic: Worship, Intimacy, Friendship With God, True Worship

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Songs And Friendship

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

- Aristotle

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Men, Special Friend, Fake Friends

Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

topic: God, Love Is, Soul, Friendship With God

Blessed are they who have 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 one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

- Thomas Hughes

source: "George Edward Jelf: A Memoir". Book by Katherine Frances Jelf, p. 10, 1909.

topic: Friendship, Thank You, Blessed, Making Friends, New Friendship

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

- Teresa of Avila

topic: Friendship, Prayer, Catholic, Friendship With God

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

- Rick Warren

source: "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

topic: Attitude, Keys, Said, Friendship With God

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

topic: Real, Delight, Next, Real Friendship, Friendship With God

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

- Teresa of Avila

source: St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Prayer, Secret, Saint, Friendship With God

For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the beginning of an extraordinary venture: that of becoming apostles among your contemporaries to lead them to live their own experience of friendship with God, made Man, with God who has made himself my friend.

- Pope Benedict XVI

source: Address to the participants of the international congress «UNIV 2006», w2.vatican.va. April 10, 2006.

topic: Teacher, Men, Encounters, Friendship With God

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

- Aristotle

topic: Friendship, Relationship, True Friend, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Self, Self Reliance, Reliance, Friendship With God

We do three things, three things, friendship with God, friendship with one another, and open friendship for the sake of the world. Here's what we mean when we say fiendship with God: We believe that all of this relationship with God starts with God, with his choice of us. We believe that salvation happens as soon as we say "yes" to God. "God I receive you, I receive your choice" and we respond with our entire lives. Welcome to salvation at that point.

- John Middendorf

topic: Believe, Mean, Choices, Friendship With God

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

- Aristotle

topic: Love, Friendship, Family, Making Friends, Not Friends

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Friendship, Believe, Done, Friendship With God

The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.

- Josef Pieper

source: Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.23, Ignatius Press

topic: Christian, Eye, Reality, Friendship With God

Though it's hard to be completely certain about things like this, I have a suspicion that only someone with deep freedom (one who makes decisions for reasons that are his own) and who's also a moral being (can experience goodness) can have a meaningful friendship with God. If friendship with God and sharing in His happiness are good things (and it seems they are), then making a creature who could enjoy these things is also a good thing, even if it comes with a liability. There's a risk.

- Greg Koukl

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Meaningful, Decision, Risk, Meaningful Friendship, Friendship With God

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Friendship, Book, Challenges, Friendship With God