When god is your best friend

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Why I Believe in God

God in Ypenburg (Photo credit: Gerard Stolk (vers la Pentecôte ))

God is your best, most perfect friend. He is always available, willing to listen to your complaints and show you a way out, a solution to your problems.

He never gets tired, He never exasperates. If you search Him, He will be there for you to patiently assist you.

When He is rejected by ignorance or human rebellion, He discreetly awaits.

Silently He speaks through the wonders of nature, and manifests Himself in countless ways, impossible to be overlooked.

God is indulgent, He is a safe shelter where comfort stretches out and calms down those who look for refuge.

He is close enough to learn about your needs, but He does not make you feel embarrassed by obliging you to receive His help. No! He gives you wise, sensitive advice through your inner clear wisdom.

At times, He even inspires you before the events so that you can be spared from the bad ones but benefited with the favorable happenings.

With God in your heart and mind, you will make happy, sensible decisions and will accomplish your daily tasks in a dynamically elevated spirit.

He provides all your needs, but He does not take them over in order not to set your effort and value aside, and thus leading you to uselessness.

He blesses you, whether or not you search for Him. However, if you rise with your thoughts and tune in with God’s gifts, you will be able to better imbibe His supreme love.

Do not do anything without finding support on this trustworthy, fatherly friend that is God.

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Briefly about I’m An Evil God Manga:

This Manhua I really liked, I thought it would be one of my favorite works. But things started to go downhill when the MC was debuffed, and very badly. In the form of the price of a finger unequal, and even after that it got worse and worse. From that point on. MC hasn’t gotten any stronger, he’s just been an errand boy for the cult. Up until chapter 191, everything was cliched enough for an isekai harem comedy. And the jokes, the plot armor, and the MC’s luck made the reader relax. But then, there was an unexpected turn toward tragedy. And because of that, the plot became more interesting. I recommend it for reading.

I’m An Evil God – My reading manga will be a real adventure for you on the best Manga Website. So, on MANGAEFFECT you have a great opportunity to Read Manga Online in English.

I’m An Evil God Manga about:

The most courageous and the most beautiful evil god in the history of all worlds! The incomparable handsome Xie Yan has fallen into the lair of a fox. In order not to die from pumping life force, he began to travel between different worlds, killed the son of God and even destroyed the confederation of Yang Yi. Thanks to the humor, the previous chapters are easy to read. Except for the story about Qian Ming (the second small world).

All the kingdoms know about the most courageous, the most beautiful, and the most evil god in history! The incomparably handsome man Xie Yan is reborn and trapped in the “den of the fox”. To become stronger, he travels between different worlds, kills the children of Deities and destroys the Union of Yang Yi… This is the story of how he eventually becomes an evil god.

Read I’m An Evil God Manhua and others Japanese comics and Korean manhwa or Chinese manhua on MANGAEFFECT in Action manga genre.

Way To Be The Evil Emperor Manga

Also, works that get more interesting as the story progresses are extremely rare. More often than not, the beginning is outstanding, and then the author leaks the ending for a happy ending in an attempt to please the publisher/yaoists (like Isayama did), just chokes up and has a hiatus (Miura), or has a creative crisis (Oku).

The title does not fit the piece at all. The MC can be kicked by a regular old lady. He is only strong in the secondary worlds (He travels through the worlds several times) in the main world he is weak.

by donny · September 5, 2017

The other day, as I was going to speak for a meeting at a place called Neyattinkara, I was least prepared. That day morning the Lord gave me one verse, and that’s all. I didn’t get much details on what I was supposed to speak. I quickly got ready and while I was in the car, I was begging God to give me more details on what I should speak, and suddenly this thought came to me: “With Me”
I started to ponder on that phrase, and knew that it was God trying to convey something very important to me.
This had some connection with the verse which the Lord gave me in the morning. As I started pondering on it, I got better clarity: Friendship with God.
I listened carefully, and said: Lord! Speak, I want to learn more.
Then He asked me, Son, what are the characteristics of a good friend
I took my phone to google it out! Lord said, No! Just meditate! I will give you the points. And all of a sudden this verse came to my mind

He appointed twelve that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach Mark 3: 14

The Lord Jesus chose His 12 disciples for one main purpose: they might be with Him
Then the Lord said, Son, you know why I chose those 12? Because I wanted them to be my friends upon this earth, and I wanted them to be with Me always!
I quickly opened my bag, and took out the notebook and wrote the first point
A good friend is the one whom we like to be with, always! (More on this below Point#1)
Wow! The Lord was teaching me. I wrote it!
I said, Thank you Jesus. Lord, more points please!
Then as I was journeying at the back seat of the car, the Lord taught me the remaining points as well. I quickly noted it down, and by the time I reached the place, it was complete. I got little more free time there, and I quickly made those scribbled points into a 10 point sermon, and that’s how you are reading this. I was weeping out of joy, because even though I was least prepared, the Lord gave me a fresh message on ‘Friendship with God’
READ MORE: How to choose a topic that makes a life changing sermon?
Yes, let’s have a quick walk-through of this good friendship. You can find a detailed video sermon on this teaching here (Part 1 is already uploaded. Remaining will be uploaded shortly in our YouTube Channel)

Abraham called as God’s friend

Let’s start with this verse

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. James 2: 23

Abraham is one of the people in the Bible, who was known as God’s friend. What a great privilege!
Where in the Old Testament (The first section of the Bible, written before Christ came) is it mentioned about Abraham, called as God’s friend?

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham my friend

God addresses Abraham as His friend
Many times, we visualize God as someone sitting on a Great White Throne, like a King, and is at a distant place. It’s true, but the Bible also paints a picture of God, who longs to walk besides us as a friend.
Would you like to be known as the Friend of God?

What is the difference between “God is my friend” and “I am God’s friend”?

When I say, “God is my friend”, I mean “I need God and God is ready to help me like a friend”
Similarly, when God says, “You are My friend, it means, “God needs you as His companion and you are readily available for God at any time! Isn’t it amazing? (We will discuss more on this below)
God is my friend is the first level of friendship with God, and we love the friendship of God
But the next higher level is when God says You are My friend. That is a great privilege! Abraham got that privilege, and we too can!
In other words, friendship with God is most exciting when it is a two-way friendship. God has been your friend for long, but are you an available friend of God?

10 things to note when God becomes your best friend

The following points are applicable when God becomes my friend. Let’s see one by one

1. You will love to be with Him always

Good friends love companionship. They love to spend time with each other. If God is truly your friend, then you will love to be with Him always. (We already discussed this in the intro portion)
Point to ponder: Do I really enjoy the companionship of God? How do I spend my free time?

2. You will blindly believe Him

If God is your friend, you will not doubt Him. As it is written about Abraham: Abraham believed God

23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

You won’t have a second question. You will simply believe what God tells!
Point to ponder: Do I blindly trust God and His words? Do I believe God without even 1% of doubt?

3. He will tell you everything

If God is your friend, He will not hide anything from you. He will plainly tell you before it happens.
When God planned to punish the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, God told Abraham about this plan.

Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Gen 16: 17

No! God loves to share with you all the plans He has for your life. Amazing, right?
Jesus also confirms this

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. John 15: 15

Point to ponder: As a friend of God, did I hear from God about His plans for my life?

4. You will do anything for Him

If God is your best friend, you will do anything for Him.
Have you noticed that, sometimes, children do not obey their parents, but if their friends ask them to do something, they will love to do it quickly. Interesting!
Yeah, that’s the power of friendship.
One day God asked Abraham to sacrifice his one and only son. Did Abraham dare to do that? Yes, Abraham was willing to do that even! No wonder God called Abraham as His dear friend!
Jesus said:

You are My friends if you do what I command. John 15: 14

Point to ponder: If God tells me to do something, will I do that, without questioning?

5. He knows everything about me (No secrets)

If God is my best friend, He knows everything about me. There is nothing hidden between true friends. There is total transparency.
David says

You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. Ps 139: 2

Even before you pray, God knows your needs! Wow!!

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Matt 6: 8

Point to ponder: Is there anything which I am trying to hide from God?

6. You can approach Him any time for any need

If God is your friend, you can disturb Him at any time. Never will He say, I am sorry, I am busy!
No never! He is always available for you.
God promises

Then call on me when you are in trouble, and I will rescue you, and you will give me glory Ps 50: 15

Jesus tells a parable about a friend who went to his close friend at midnight for food. Read more

5 Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; 6 a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.’ 7 And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ 8 I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need. (Luke 6)

(Audacity means a willingness to take bold risks)
You will not feel shameful to bug God any time! 😛
Point to ponder: Do I often bug God for my needs? (Yes, you can! Jesus gave you permission)

7. You can share any problem with Him. He can handle any problem of yours!

If God is your true friend, you will share all your burdens, worries, anxieties and problems with Him. And He is faithful enough to help you out.

6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Phil 4: 6, 7

Point to ponder: Do I discuss all my problems with Jesus?

8. There is no need to fear because there is abundant love

If God is your true friend, you will never be afraid to go to Him. Even if you have made a mistake, you will never fear to go to Him and ask for forgiveness. Because you know that God loves you so much.

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. I John 4: 18

Adam, when he sinned, he ran away from the presence of God. But when Peter sinned, He repented and wept and Jesus saw His repentant heart and had mercy on Peter.
That’s the difference.
Point to ponder: Do I run away from God when I make a mistake or run towards God for help?

9. One look is enough. No communication gap

A friend understands your gestures. Sometimes even a look or a change in facial expression is enough.
When Peter denied Jesus, He looked at Peter from a distance. And that was enough for Peter to remember the words of Jesus and He went out and wept

The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly. Luke 22: 62

That was the kind of friendship Peter had with Jesus. One straight look was enough.
Point to ponder: Am I aware that the eyes of God are looking straight at me when I am alone?

10. You will even dare to die for Him

True mark of a true friend is that he will be willing even to die for his friend.

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15: 13

Jesus demonstrated His love for us by dying on the cross for our sins. What a powerful friendship!
Point to ponder: Am I willing to risk my life for Jesus?

One assignment for you!

If God is your friend, He will do all these for you. True!
Now, I just want you revisit all the above points and imagine God is considering you as His own friend. Can you fulfill all these to God as His friend? I would like to know your thoughts on this.
One example: Point #10. God proved His friendship with you by dying for you. As God’s friend, I should be willing to die for God.
Similarly, could you please share your favorite point below as a comment. 🙂 I am eagerly waiting for your comments. Thanks in advance

Перевод песни You’re my best friend (Queen)

You’re my best friend

Ты мой лучший друг

Ooh, you make me live
Whatever this world can give to me
It’s you, you’re all I see
Ooh, you make me live now honey
Ooh, you make me live

Oh, you’re the best friend
That I ever had
I’ve been with you such a long time
You’re my sunshine
And I want you to know
That my feelings are true
I really love you (Ooh)
Oh, you’re my best friend

Ooh, you make me live

Ooh, I’ve been wandering round
But I still come back to you
(still come back to you)
In rain or shine
You’ve stood by me girl
I’m happy at home (happy at home)
You’re my best friend

Oh, you’re the first one
When things turn out bad
You know I’ll never be lonely
You’re my only one
And I love the things
I really love the things that you do
Oh, you’re my best friend

Oh, ooh, you make me live

I’m happy (happy at home)
You’re my best friend
Oh, oh, you’re my best friend
Ooh, you make me live
Oo oo ooh
You, you’re my best friend

О, ты заставляешь меня жить.
Все, что этот мир может дать мне,
Это ты, ты все, что я вижу.
О, ты заставляешь меня жить, милая.
О, ты заставляешь меня жить.

О, ты лучший друг,
Который у меня когда-либо был.
Я был с тобой так долго.
Ты мое счастье,
И я хочу, чтобы ты знала,
Что мои чувства искренни.
Я действительно тебя люблю.
О, ты мой лучший друг.

О, ты заставляешь меня жить.

О, я странствовал,
Но я по-прежнему возвращаюсь к тебе
(по-прежнему возвращаюсь к тебе).
В дождь и жару,
Ты оставалась со мной, девочка.
Я счастлив дома (счастлив дома).
Ты мой лучший друг.

О, ты первая.
Когда вещи оборачиваются в худшую сторону,
Ты знаешь, я никогда не буду одинок.
Ты моя единственная,
И мне это нравится.
Мне действительно нравится то, что ты делаешь.
Ты мой лучший друг.

О, ты заставляешь меня жить.

Я счастлив (счастлив дома).
Ты мой лучший друг.
ОО, ты мой лучший друг.
О, ты заставляешь меня жить.
Оооо.
Ты, ты мой лучший друг.

130 Best Friend Questions [+Quiz]

Best friends are one of the nicest things in life. Knowing you have someone upon whom you can rely, and who understands everything about you, is special. This article provides questions to help you find out just how much you and your friend know about each other.

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You may wish to find funny questions to ask your best friend, or some deep questions about feelings and opinions. Sometimes questions can help us get to know someone better. Our Best Friend Tag Questions help create interesting conversations. At the end of the article is a quiz to help you determine how much you and your best friend really know each other.

Best Friend Challenge Questions

How much do you really know about your best friend? This list of questions challenges your knowledge with questions on information you really should know the answer to if you have been best friends for a while. Additionally, we challenge you to find out the answers to any you do not know already.

What is your best friend’s:

More Challenge Questions

Best Friend Tag Questions

Best Friend Tag consists of asking and answering questions about your friendship. After you both answer, you reveal whether the answers are correct. If you wish, only one of you needs to answer the question. You can pick ten to fifteen of the following questions for a short session of best friend tag, or more if you wish. Some of the questions may end up taking a rather long time to answer, and some can be answered quickly. Enjoy!

Best Friend Quiz Questions

Hopefully, you have used our lists of best friend questions not only to see how much you know, but also to find out more about that important person in your life – your best friend. Now we challenge you to take a quiz to find out how much you really know. We have divided the quiz into five different categories with ten questions in each: Basic Facts, Favorites, Feelings, Thoughts and Opinions, and Funny and Silly. Answer each question and then ask your best friend if your answers are correct. At the end of the quiz, we have a section to help you score this fun game.

Best Friend Basic Facts

Best Friend Favorites

What we like tells a great deal about the type of person we are. These questions will help you discover how much you have in common with each other.

Best Friend Feelings

These questions disclose how well you really know your best friend. Our feelings are not something we share with just anyone. If you know how your friend feels about the important things in their life, it shows they trust you and consider you their bestie!

Best Friend Thoughts and Opinions

Are you and your best friend as close as you think you are? Do you share important things with each other easily? This next set of questions gets to the heart of your relationship.

Funny and Silly Things about Your Best Friend

Some of the most interesting things about our best friend are also the funniest! The following section of questions explores everything fun and silly about your relationship with your best friend. Have fun asking, answering, and sharing memories.

Results of Your Best Friend Quiz

0 to 5 Points – Rethink Your Relationship

Possibly you are just beginning to be friends. Or maybe, you consider someone to be a best friend who really isn’t. Either way, you have not shared very much about your lives. If you consider the relationship one of value, make an effort to ask some of these questions to get to know them better. Otherwise, move on to another person to cultivate as your best friend.

5 to 20 Points – Repeat and Refresh

You may know each other a little bit, but there is no depth to your relationship yet. Give yourself some time to grow close. Or, simply enjoy each other’s company, without the comfort of knowing everything about each other.

20 to 30 Points – Getting to Know You

Your relationship goals are beginning to bear fruit. However, there are still many things you do not know about each other. Take time to get to know your best friend by sharing more about your feelings and childhood.

30 to 40 – Almost Family

You are definitely best friends, and know so much about each other, it is almost as if you are related. Continue to share all of your thoughts and feelings, as your relationship can still grow closer and stronger.

45 to 50 Points – Best Friends Forever

You are right – this is definitely your best friend! Your relationship should last a lifetime. You are fortunate to have found someone who cares as much as you do about having a very close relationship.

Our useful and comprehensive list of best friend questions works well to help you assess your relationship with your best friend. Now that you have learned more about your best friend, you can build on what you know to grow even closer. Perhaps you have discovered the person you thought was your best friend is not letting you into their lives and thoughts and it is time to move on. Whatever you discover, many of our questions will challenge you and provide enjoyment as you and your best friend explore the answers. Have fun?

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Susan majored in English with a double minor in Humanities and Business at Arizona State University and earned a Master’s degree in Educational Administration from Liberty University. She taught grades four through twelve in both public and private schools. Subjects included English, U.S. and world history and geography, math, earth and physical science, Bible, information technologies, and creative writing.

Susan has been freelance writing for over ten years, during which time she has written and edited books, newspaper articles, biographies, book reviews, guidelines, neighborhood descriptions for realtors, Power Point presentations, resumes, and numerous other projects.

136 Inspiring Friendship Quotes

In this post I’d like to share the best friendship quotes I’ve found in the past 10+ years.

Because few things have such a huge impact on happiness and the enjoyment, depth and plain fun of life as the friendships we have.

It could be the friendships with our partners, family members, co-workers and the people we have known for a few years now or since we were kids.

Or even with people we have never even met at the other side of the world or the pets we love.

So I’d like to start this year by looking back and share some of the best advice on this topic from the people who have walked this earth over the past hundreds and thousands of years.

This is 136 thought-provoking, beautiful, sometimes poignant and sometimes funny quotes on friendship.

And if you want even more inspiration then I’d recommend this collection of quotes on self-care and this one filled with quotes on never giving up.

[Note: the original version of this post contained 74 quotes but it has now been updated with 60 additional quotes on friendship.]

136 Inspiring and Helpful Friendship Quotes

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
– Winnie the Pooh

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
– C.S. Lewis

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
– Washington Irving

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
– Jim Henson

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
– Thomas J. Watson

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
— Dale Carnegie

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
– Unknown

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”
– Shel Silverstein

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
– Plutarch

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
– Eugene Kennedy

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
– Muhammad Ali

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.”
– Winnie the Pooh

“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”
– Ally Condie

“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
— Audrey Hepburn

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
– Socrates

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
– Clifton Fadiman

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “
– Leo F. Buscaglia

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
– Charles Lamb

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
– Zig Ziglar

“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”
– Laurence J. Peter

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
– William Arthur Ward

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
— Anthony Robbins

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
– Elisabeth Foley

“There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west –
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
— Oprah Winfrey

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”
– William Hazlitt

“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”
– Arthur Brisbane

“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”
– Emil Ludwig

“A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.”
— John Tillotson

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
– Donald Miller

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
– Anais Nin

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
— Joseph F. Newton Men

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”
– Charles Kingsley

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
– Donna Roberts

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. “
– Linda Grayson

“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.”
– Gloria Naylor

“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich

“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.”
– Diana Cortes

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
— Miles Franklin

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus

“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
– William James

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
– Tennessee Williams

“The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
– Abraham Lincoln

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
– Ethel Barrymore

“If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.”
– Alice Duer Miller

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
– Bill Watterson

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
– Unknown

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Carl W. Buechner

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
– Len Wein

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
– Elie Wiesel

“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.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”
– Charles R. Swindoll

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
– Seneca

“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
– Charles Darwin

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
– Euripides

“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.”
– Greg Tamblyn

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”
– St. Jerome

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller

“A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.“
– Lois Wyse

“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.”
– John O’Donohue

“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.”
– Heidi Wills

“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.”
– Jesse Owens

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”
– Jim Morrison

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.“
– Samuel Butler

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Friends are the family you choose.“
– Jess C. Scott

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Henry Ford

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.“
– Eustache Deschamps

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.”
– Thomas Hughes

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
– Khalil Gibran

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
– Aristotle

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.“
– Markus Zusak

“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.”
– Anna Cummins

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
– Orson Welles

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”
– Henri Nouwen

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
– Mencius

“If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?”
– Meghan Markle

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
– Amy Poehler

“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.”
– Sicilian Proverb

“Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
– Richard Bach

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.“
– Sylvia Plath

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.“
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”
– Jacques Delille

“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”
– C.J. Langenhoven

“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
– Anna Deavere Smith

“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
– Anna Taylor

“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.”
– Irish Proverb

“Where there are friends, there is wealth.”
– Titus Maccius Plautus

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“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

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.”
– Joseph Parry

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
– Mark Twain

“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
– Robert Brault

“Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.”
– Bill Watterson

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”
– S.E. Hinton

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
— Dale Carnegie

“Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
– Albert Camus

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
– Brandi Snyder

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Перевод песни God was never on your side (Motörhead)

God was never on your side

Бог никогда не был на твоей стороне

If the stars fall down on me,
And the sun refused to shine,
Then may the shackles be undone,
May all the old words cease to rhyme.
If the sky turned into stone,
It will matter not at all,
For there is no heaven in the sky,
Hell does not wait for our downfall.

Let the voice of reason chime,
Let the pious vanish for all time.
God’s face is hidden, all unseen,
You can’t ask Him what it all means,
He was never on your side,
God was never on your side.
Let right or wrong alone decide,
God was never on your side.

See ten thousand ministries,
See the holy, righteous dogs.
They claim to heal, but all they do is steal,
Abuse your faith, cheat, and rob.
If God is wise, why is He still
When these false prophets call Him friend?
Why is He silent? Is He blind?
Are we abandoned in the end?

Let the sword of reason shine,
Let us be free of prayer and shrine.
God’s face is hidden, turned away,
He never has a word to say,
He was never on your side,
God was never on your side.
Let right or wrong alone decide,
God was never on your side.
No, no, no.

He was never on your side,
God was never on your side,
Never, never, never, never,
Never on your side,
Never on your side.
God was never on your side,
Never on your side.

Если звезды упадут на меня,
И солнце откажется сиять,
Оковы, возможно, будут разрушены,
И все старые слова потеряют рифму.
Если бы небо превратилось в камень,
Это не имело бы никакого значения,
Ибо нет Рая в небесах,
А Ад не ждёт нашего падения!

Да раздастся голос разума!
Да исчезнут навсегда все набожные!
Божий лик скрыт, его никто не видел.
Тебе не спросить его, зачем всё это.
Он никогда не был на твоей стороне,
Бог никогда не был на твоей стороне.
Сам решай, что правильно, а что нет.
Бог никогда не был на твоей стороне.

Видишь десять тысяч «министерств»‎,
Видишь святых правоверных псов,
Они утверждают, что исцеляют, а сами лишь воруют,
Злоупотребляя твоей верой, они обманывают и грабят.
Если бог мудр, почему он позволяет
Этим фальшивым пророкам называть его другом?
Почему он молчит? Он ослеп.
Мы окончательно покинуты?

Да воссияет меч разума,
Да освободимся мы от молитв и святынь!
Лик божий сокрыт — он отвернулся от нас,
Он ни разу не произнёс ни слова,
Он никогда не был на твоей стороне,
Бог никогда не был на твоей стороне.
Сам решай, что правильно, а что нет.
Бог никогда не был на твоей стороне.
Нет, нет, нет!

Он никогда не был на твоей стороне,
Бог никогда не был на твоей стороне.
НИКОГДА! НИКОГДА! НИКОГДА! НИКОГДА!
Никогда не был на твоей стороне.
Никогда не был на твоей стороне.
Бог никогда не был на твоей стороне.
Никогда не был на твоей стороне.

Am I in Love with My Best Friend? Quiz (LGBTQ+ edition)

Your feelings about love can get pretty complicated, especially if you think you love your best friend. Try this quiz to help you figure out what you’re really feeling.

«You have more than just a little crush on her, you’re downright in love with her and that’s a beautiful thing. Don’t be afraid to tell her how you feel.»

Have been friends with her for a few years.. but only started to realise my feelings towards her a few months ago. We aren’t the closest of friends but i can say that we can talk comfortably around each other. I’ve actually confessed to her a month ago, but i got a «not looking for rs rn» response back. and TBH, i thought i would get over it really quick like how i’ve gotten over my past crushes quick as well aft getting rejected SUBTLY. but.. for her i couldn’t. i have no idea why. after it being awkward for about a week i worked up the courage to have a conversation with her again, and all is smooth now, except that since i can talk to her more now, my feelings grow STRONGER. her smile bro. i’ve said some things to her accidentally which i felt might have hinted to her that i STILL like her? but im not sure if she got the hint.. and i feel like i might’ve already been really obvious but. idk. been kinda stressed out overthinking this because i’ve been kinda acting strange on text with her and i feel bad hahaha because i dont wanna make her feel uncomfortable by texting too nicely to her and complimenting her but i also want to get closer to her by being NOT SO nice you know. i really want her to be mine though. she just keeps pulling me in. no one else has made me feel this way :,)

I’ve known her for a bit since I was younger, and for at least a year now I have had some feelings for her. I don’t even know if they are feelings, it might be a phase but some parts of me hope not. When I think of her and when I’m with her I feel confused but wish she was with me for the rest of my life in a loving way. She means the world to me, and we don’t talk that much anymore, but my feelings will not fade. The test results said I’m in love with her and honestly I’m not surprised.

I just wish I had someone to talk to about this because I’m pretty sure both of my parents are homophobic and I feel weird opening up about this to my sister. I don’t talk to many of my friends because I don’t like coming towards people myself. I can’t talk to my best friend about it because I don’t want to lose her. Sometimes I just feel so alone, and I know it’s my fault. When I realized I might be bisexual was when I was with her. I think about her night and day. I love her so much, even if she doesn’t know it. I am an introvert with social anxiety and have had multiple panic attacks before because I was around too many people and 2 mental breakdowns. She makes me feel at ease and forget about all of those things, I just can’t lose her so I have to hide these feelings a little longer.

I have had some friends like her before, and now, but I only feel that way towards her. I guess it’s because we’ve been friends for a long time? I don’t know. All I know is I feel so much better because this is the first time I’ve let it out. If you have read this, thank you so much for putting your time into reading this! It means a lot to me, goodbye.

Sincerely,
a stranger 🙂

ps. she says she’s still thinking about her sexuality. what to dooo.

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120 Friendship Quotes on How Friends Make Life Better

Whenever you’re feeling down, read these friendship quotes to remind yourself that your friends will always have your back.

Life is challenging as it is, but it’s made a million times harder if you don’t have anyone behind you that supports you every step of the way. Maybe this is the reason why friends have been given to us by God.

Friends make life easier to bear and give us many reasons to smile and live life positively. Without them, our life would be dull and would have no color.

So, if you need help figuring out who your true friends are, make sure you go through the complete list below!

Continue reading here.

And don’t forget to check out these inspirational quotes and positive quotes.

Best Friendship Quotes

1. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson

2. “Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life, and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” – Dean Koontz

3. “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver

4. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

5. “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” – Eustace Budgell

6. “A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.” – Simon Sinek

7. “There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.” – Anonymous

8. “Good friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Anonymous

9. “A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” – Frances Ward Weller

Famous Quotes About Friendship

10. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis

11. “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” – Barbara Kingsolver

12. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham

13. “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey

14. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anais Nin

15. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle

Meaningful Friendship Quotes

16. “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

17. “Friendship—my definition—is built on two things: respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.” – Stieg Larsson

18. “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” – Henry van Dyke

19. “One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.” – Mindy Kaling

20. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” – Anonymous

21. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini

Quotes to Help You Identify True Friendships From Fake Ones

22. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

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23. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson

24. “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau

25. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

26. “True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.” – St. Jerome

27. “That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you—the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do.” – R. J. L.

28. “True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” – Nicole Richie

29. “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson

30. “True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.” – Isabel Allende

31. “A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be.” – Anonymous

32. “True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.” – Josh Grayson

Quotes That Will Remind You of Your Best Friend

33. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Watterson

34. “Throughout life, you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go.” – Anonymous

35. “A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you create them.” – Anonymous

36. “Sometimes, being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.” – Anonymous

37. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” – Sarah Dessen

38. “I found out what the secret to life is—friends. Best friends.” – Fried Green Tomatoes

39. “Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking.” – Anonymous

40. “Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.” – Anonymous

41. “You can always tell when two people are best friends because they’re always having way more fun than it makes sense for them to be having.” – Anonymous

42. “Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter, and live better.” – Anonymous

Real Friendship Quotes

43. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

44. “Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.” – Anonymous

45. “You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” – Elizabeth Taylor

46. “Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare and precious as a pearl.” – Tahar Ben Jelloun

Friendship Quotes Packed With Insights

47. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson

48. “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends, even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Thomas Aquinas

49. “Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things.” – Paulo Coelho

50. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” – Maya Angelou

Beautiful Friendship Quotes to Remind You of Your Closest Friends

51. “Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” – Steve Maraboli

52. “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

53. “Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” – Vincent Van Gogh

54. “A good friend is a connection to life—a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” – Lois Wyse

55. “A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia

56. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” – Anonymous

Short but Meaningful Friendship Quotes

57. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

58. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. “Friendship’s the wine of life.” – Edward Young

60. “Life is nothing without friendship.” – Cicero

61. “In my friend, I find a second self.” – Isabel Norton

62. “Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” – Eustache Deschamps

63. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran

64. “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith

Wise Quotes on Friendship

65. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali

66. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” – Socrates

67. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides

68. “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” – Anonymous

69. “One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” – Clifton Fadiman

70. “But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.” – Thomas Jefferson

71. “Each new friendship can make you a new person because it opens up new doors inside of you.” – Kate DiCamillo

72. “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” – Zig Ziglar

73. “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde

74. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker

Quotes to Highlight the Wonderful Connection Between Friendship and Love

75. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel

76. “The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler

77. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de la Fontaine

78. “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” – John Evelyn

79. “Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.” – Thomas Hughes

Quotes About the Happiness and Positivity That Friendship Brings

80. “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” – Shanna Rodriguez

81. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover—hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb

82. “A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.” – Anonymous

83. “In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Khalil Gibran

84. “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” – A.A. Milne

Quotes About the Support You Can Only Get From Genuine Friendship

85. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey

86. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” – Misty Copeland

87. “Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said, ‘I’m here for you,’ and proved it.” – Anonymous

88. “Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.” – Anonymous

89. “One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.” – John O’Donohue

Friendship Quotes to Make Your Day Brighter

90. “Friends—they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.” – Henry David Thoreau

91. “Friends share laughs, memories, and inside jokes. They will always be honest and stand by your side no matter what. They wipe your tears, pick you up when you fall, and are forever a piece of your heart.” – Anonymous

92. “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief.” – Joseph Addison

93. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” – S.E. Hinton

94. “I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” – Charles R. Swindoll

Interesting Quotes on Friendship

95. “There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

96. “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” – Marlene Dietrich

97. “There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” – Dodinsky

98. “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.” – Jane Austen

99. “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian

Friendship Quotes That Will Make You Reflect

100. “The real test of friendship is—can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” – Eugene Kennedy

101. “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.” – Octavia Butler

102. “Friendship takes work. Finding friends, nurturing friendships, scheduling face time—it all takes a tremendous amount of work. But it’s worth it. If you put in the effort, you’ll see the rewards of positive friends who will make your life extraordinary.” – Maya Angelou

103. “What I realize now, in hindsight, is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there’s nothing left between you, that you’ve hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves.” – Colette McBeth

104. “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert

Funny Friendship Quotes That Will Have You Laughing

105. “Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolf

106. “There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

107. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

108. “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler

109. “Best friend—the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them.” – Anonymous

Bible Quotes and Verses About Friendship

110. “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” – Proverbs 27:9

111. “Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.” – 1 John 4:11

112. “Here’s the lesson: use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your earthly possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home.” – Luke 16:9

113. “Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.” – Proverbs 22:24-25

114. “The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.” – Proverbs 12:26

More Friendship Quotes You’ll Love

115. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius

116. “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” – Charles Darwin

117. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides

118. “Remember that life’s most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

119. “‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb

120. “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” – George Santayana

How Does Your Friend Make Your Life Better?

Because man is a social animal, it’s impossible for us to move through life completely alone and in isolation. We always strive to find connections and links with other people like ourselves.

With similar interests, likes, and dislikes, we’re able to forge a bond with strangers. By opening ourselves up to them, we build a relationship, and soon enough, strangers become friends.

But, though it’s easy to be social and interact with others, it’s an entirely different ball game when it comes to finding genuine friends. Building true and lasting friendships takes time, effort, honesty, loyalty, and love. It’s not something that’ll happen quickly, but once you do find someone who can be your real friend, we’re sure it’ll be worth it!

We hope these quotes were able to shed light on what the true meaning of friendship is. Feel free to reread these top friendship quotes whenever you’re in doubt or need advice. Maybe you’ll find a friend in the next stranger you come across!

Did these quotes motivate you to go out and find new friends? Did the collection make you miss your closest friends? Share your thoughts and opinions with us by commenting below!

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4 Signs God Is Telling You to End a Friendship

by Mark Ballenger

If God does lead you to end a friendship, this does not mean you now need to be enemies with this person. Sometimes a friendship needs to end gradually by simply hanging out with this person less because God wants you to put your energy somewhere else. At other times God will tell you to abruptly cut this person out of your life because you’ve already tried to talk about the issues in the friendship but this person is not listening and is toxic to be around.

I say all that because in this article I’m not going to be covering how you should end a friendship. Each type of friendship is different; some are serious because you’ve known someone a longtime and some are not because you just started hanging out. Pray for wisdom on how to lovingly end a friendship while also protecting your own heart as Proverbs 4:23 commands.

With that said, here are 4 common signs God will give you when he wants you to end a friendship.

1. If This Friendship Is Preventing You from Moving Forward in Life, This Often Means God Wants You to End This Friendship

As the common saying goes, “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” It’s really true. We become like those we spend time with. This is why in Proverbs 13:20 it states, “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.” Notice how this verse looks forward to the future affect your friends have on you (“become wise” and “will suffer”).

Whenever we are not moving forward with the Lord, we are not just standing still. We are actually going backwards. The really dangerous thing about this is that we move backwards so slowly it can be hard to notice. But if you keep hanging out with friends that are preventing forward movement, you will wake up one day and be shocked at how far back you have rolled without even knowing it.

Notice the principle of progressiveness that is found in Romans 6:19, “For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.” One way or the other we are always moving and never standing still. Sin will either take hold and produce more sin or we will follow Christ which will lead to more holiness.

Therefore we must obey what 2 Timothy 2:22 commands, “So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.” Notice we are called to two actions, fleeing and pursuing. You need to flee those friendships that are preventing growth and pursue those friendships that help you seek the Lord with a pure heart.

2. If This Person Has Wronged You in a Way that Has Completely Broken Your Trust or Has Shown a Pattern of Lying to You, This Is Often a Sign God Wants You to End This Friendship

Whenever possible we should also seek reconciliation, but it’s not always possible to reconcile and God does not command us to always reconcile like he commands us to always forgive. God made relationships to be built on trust. Certainly none of us are perfect and we all need grace, but if someone is untrustworthy it is impossible to have a good friendship with them.

So if God has shown you a big betrayal by this person or he has shown you a consistent pattern of lies by this friend, oftentimes this means God is leading you to end this friendship so you can guard your heart. As Proverbs 14:7 says, “Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.” Proverbs 17:9 also states, “Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.”

Notice what Paul says to the younger man Timothy in 1 Timothy 5:1-2, “Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.”

It’s interesting to me that only after “younger women” does Paul add on an extra word when instructing young Timothy. He mentions encouraging older men as fathers, younger men as brothers, and older women as mothers. But when it comes to younger women, women who are single and around his age, Paul says he should treat them as sisters “in all purity.”

I believe problems arise when one person likes the other person but the feelings are not mutual and then these two friends just keep the friendship the same as it has always been. I believe this is unloving by the person who does not like the other person and unwise of the person with the feelings. I say that because what almost always happens is that eventually the other person starts dating someone they do like and then the friend is pushed to the sidelines anyways. It seems selfish to me to use a friendship while it’s convenient and then push that friend aside once you no longer need it to fill your emotional tank while you are waiting for a real relationship.

So this is why I believe close male to female friendships are not built to last and should transition into dating or be dialed back to not such a close friendship. I don’t think this scenario always happens between Christian single friends, but when they are considered close friends or best friends I do believe this is the norm.

4. If This Friendship Is Bringing Unnecessary Temptation Into Your Life, It’s Time to End This Friendship

You always have to put your relationship with God above everything else, including your friendships. If a friendship is detracting from your walk with God rather than adding to it, it’s time to end that friendship.

As Jesus said in Matthew 5:30, “And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.” It’s better to lose a friend than to lose your closeness with God.

71 Best Friend Quotes & Captions For You & Your BFF

I love quotes! In a short few sentences, you are sometimes able to get a lifetime’s worth of knowledge and wisdom. Combine this with the fact that friendship is something that I hold dear to my heart and you get a collection of best friend quotes and best friend captions that are really special to me! I hope this collection of best friend quotes and best friend captions help you reflect on your current relationships and make the bond between you and your friends even stronger! If you plan to use a quote from here to make a gift for your best friend or simply change your Instagram caption on your BFF’s birthday — I am confident that you will find a quote you will like!

Friendship is an extraordinarily unique type of feeling which is very different from just love. While it’s possible to be in love with someone and not be their best friend, it’s impossible to have a friendship with someone and NOT love them. Take the example of your parents; while your parents are genetically hardwired to love you they are not necessarily your friends. (Watch this fun video below if you disagree). The reason behind this is that while love or “infatuation” just happens, you have ALL of the control when it comes to friendship and who you let into your circle.

With friendship, you are given an opportunity to choose whom you let into your life and whom you allow yourself to love. This control gives birth to the most beautiful relationships. While you are in a sense forced to change yourself for the relationships nature makes for you; with your friends, you are able to be who you truly are.

Just always keep in mind that true friendship is hard to come by and that it’s important that you always remind your friends how much they mean to you. So with that small reflection in mind here are 71 of my favorite best friend quotes for your best friend forever, a brother from another mother, or sister from another mister! (or simply if you need best friend quotes or best friend captions for your WhatsApp, Instagram, or Tik Tok status update)

Here are 71 of my favorite best friend quotes & captions for you & your best friend forever :

Share your favorite best friend quotes I might have missed in the comments:

I hope you enjoyed my collection of best friend quotes and captions! I’m confident you found a few best friend quotes you liked but in case there is a really awesome best friend quote I missed please make sure to share it below in the comments! Let’s try to make this post the ultimate collection of best friend quotes for all the beautiful friends in the world.

Choose Your Friends Carefully

Posted on Last updated: February 23, 2021

For those of you who have really entered into a true Spirit-filled, fully-surrendered walk with the Lord where He is now leading your life in the direction that He will want it to go in – one of the first things that you will find happening is that God will start to prune out the people that He does not want in your life and start to bring in the people that He does want in your life.

As you will see in the Scripture verses I will list below, the Bible tells us to choose our friends very carefully in this life. These verses will tell us that he who walks with wise people will become wise himself, but that he who keeps company with fools will be destroyed.

The Bible tells us that we are not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, that we are to stay away from people who cause divisions and offenses, and to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly.

This does not mean that we cannot work with the lost, the downtrodden, and the people who need to find God and His message of eternal salvation.

When Jesus came to our earth in the flesh, He always went after the sinners and the outcasts. But when Jesus went after these sinners, it was always for the express purpose of getting them saved and cleaned up.

Jesus did not chase after everyone. He ripped on the Pharisees and many of the high-ranking Jewish leaders. Some people are open to be helped, others are not. The Bible tells us to stay away from people who are considered to be “dogs,” and to beware of people who are “evil workers.”

One of the first things that God will do with your life once you come into a full surrender with Him is to start to set some boundary lines. He will now decide the path that you will follow in Him. He will now be leading you into the specific jobs that He will want you to have in this life.

If you are single and have not married yet, He will lead you to the mate that He will want you to marry if it is in His perfect will that you get married in this life.

In other words, God will be deciding who your true friends are going to be in this life and who will not.

The main reason God will be helping you to choose who your true friends are going to be in this life is because His ultimate and highest aim for you is to transform and sanctify you.

In other words, He wants you to spiritually grow and mature in your walk with Him.

The Bible tells us that we are transformed by the renewing of our minds. God’s ultimate aim for us is our sanctification – where He starts to begin to mold and transform us into the express image of His Son Jesus Christ.

The main reason that God will start to take out the friends in your life that He does not want you to have is because some of these people may be negative influences in your life.

They may not be open to growing and maturing in the Lord like you will be, and all they will do is try and hold you back when you start your own spiritual journey and growth in the Lord.

They will start criticizing and making fun of you and all they will end up doing is stunting your growth in the Lord.

God will not be putting up with this, and He will thus be taking all of these bad and negative influences out of your life very early on once you enter into this full surrender with Him. For those of you who are married and have children – it is the same thing when you do not want your children hanging out with other children who you know would be a bad and negative influence on your child.

You know that if your children start hanging out with the wrong type of crowd, they can become very easily corrupted in a very short period of time. As a result, you will become very protective with your children, and you will watch them very closely when they are old enough to start choosing who their friends are going to be.

It is the exact same way with God the Father! This is why God will be moving very early on to take out these negative influences in your life.

Once this starts to happen, you have to go with the program or you could cause God to start pulling back on you. And once that starts to happen, you could then start to backslide and everything could then start to shut down.

If you will allow God to prune out the people that He does not want you to have in your life – then what He will start to do is to bring in the people that He will want to have in your life.

I call these types of friends “God-friends.” These people will be other good, godly, Spirit-filled Christians who are truly walking in good stead with the Lord and they will now be the people that He will want you to share your walk with!

The Bible tells us that we can only “know in part.” No one has all of the answers to everything.

By sharing your walk with other good, solid, Christian friends, you can each help each other out in your pursuit of the knowledge and ways of God.

You will know some things about God they may not know, and they will know some things that you may not know. You thus are able to help contribute to each other’s storehouse of knowledge in the Lord.

One of the verses listed below state that two friends can help sharpen each other up like “iron sharpens iron.”

Just like one piece of iron can make the other piece of iron extremely sharp by rubbing up against it – two solid Christian friends can also have the same type of positive effect on one another by sharing their own personal walks in the Lord with one other.

You will be learning about God from all of your own personal adventures and experiences with Him – but you will also be learning more about God from all of your other friend’s personal journey and experiences with Him.

How many of these types of God-friends can you expect God to bring into your life? Only God will be able to answer that for each and every one of you. Some may only get one or two to start off with, others may get 5 or 10. Let God make the decision as to how many and when they will be brought into your life.

You are much better off having just one or two good, solid, quality friends as versus 10 or 15 that are not as good quality friends as the one or two may be.

Every Christian is operating at different levels of spiritual development with the Lord. God knows best as to who would be best suited for you at the level of spiritual development that you are currently operating at with Him.

When God does bring in these types of special God-friends to share your journey with – they will be real treasures!

These God-friendships will be anointed by God Himself due to the quality feedings and interaction that will occur in them.

Sadly, what you will find out very early on, is just because someone may be a saved and born again Christian does not mean this person has their act together in the Lord. Some people have become too judgmental and too critical in their walks with the Lord. Some have become too arrogant and pompous, thinking they have all the answers to everything.

They will tend to look down on anyone else who is not operating at the knowledge levels they are operating at. Some have become so flaky in their walks with the Lord, that they have lost touch with reality and you won’t be able to connect with any of them.

God knows best as to who will be best suited for you at your current level of spiritual development with Him – so let Him guide you to the ones that He will want you to connect with. I have seen God do this so many times for others, that I literally consider it a miraculous piece of work – especially as to how He gets you to meet some of these people in the first place.

Some of these chess moves are quite incredible, as most of these people will be total strangers to you until God moves in to match the two of you up.

The other thing that could occur besides God matching you up with total strangers is that He may move on someone else you may know, but that you are not particular good friends with.

That person then gets saved and plugged in, and then they find out that you too are saved and plugged in – and now a good God-friendship can start to build up as you now have something in common with one another to start to build a good solid friendship with.

This could be another member in your family, someone that you may work with, a friend who you may have known from your past, or someone you may see at church from time to time but never really talked with. The possibilities are endless as to where these people may come from.

These God-friends can come from anywhere and at anytime – so keep your radars up, as you never know when God may move to bring one of them into your life.

Bible Verses On Friendship

1. Choose Your Friends Carefully

This first verse is the one that will tell us to choose our friends very carefully in this life. This verse should literally be burned into your memory banks so that you never, ever forget this basic fundamental command from the Lord! Here it is:

“The righteous should CHOOSE HIS FRIENDS CAREFULLY, for the way of the wicked leads them astray.” (Proverbs 12:26)

Notice this verse is specifically telling us that if we do not choose our friends very carefully in this life, that we could end up choosing the wrong type of people to become friends with, and they can then end up leading us astray from God and with what He wants to do with our lives. Many of God’s people have lost their calls in Him because they chose to hang out with the wrong type of people.

2. Benefits of Choosing Good God-Friends

Here are six very interesting verses showing you why God does want you to have other good, solid, Christian friends to share your walk with.

These six verses will show you that there is safety in the multitude of counselors, that plans can go awry without having other people to hash things out with, that war is waged by having wise counsel with others, that learning is increased by listening to wise counsel, and that if you cease to listen to wise counsel – that you will start to stray from being able to acquire more knowledge in God.

Once you turn the reigns of your life over to God for Him to fully handle, He will now make sure that you get matched up with the right kind of people that you can become true God-friends with.

3. As Iron Sharpens Iron

This next verse is extremely fascinating as it tells us that two friends can help sharpen each other up as iron sharpens iron.

A true God-friend can help keep you sharp in the Spirit, let you know when you are getting too far off track, help you get through and make sense of some of the downswings that can occur in your walk, confirm and help bear witness when you are on the right track, give you pep talks when needed, and help keep you in the game when you start to get too mad and frustrated when things do not go your way.

You each serve to help keep each other up in the Lord so that you both can continue to stay on the straight and narrow road that God now has you set up on. You can also help each other out if one starts to be tempted to do something they should not be engaging in. Here is the verse:

“As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.” (Proverbs 27:17)

A true God-friend will always be honest and straight forward with you. You cannot help keep each other up and sharp in the Lord unless you are both willing to be totally honest with one another.

4. Do Not Be Unequally Yoked With Unbelievers

These next seven verses will tell us not to be yoked together with unbelievers, foolish men, dogs, evil workers, those who are disorderly, reckless, contentious and always causing trouble and strife.

There is one verse in particular that tells us that “evil company corrupts good habits.” This verse perfectly shows us what can happen to any of your children if they start hanging out with the wrong type of people.

Here are 7 good verses telling us to stay on our side of the fence, and to stay away from all of the bad apples who have no desire for God or anything that He stands for.

All of these verses are giving us major warnings that we are to stay away from all of the bad apples in this life who will do nothing but try and bring us down to their lower way of living in this life.

Many Christians have had their lives totally ruined and destroyed as a result of marrying the wrong people or choosing the wrong kinds of friends to hang out with.

Conclusion

Just as God saw fit to create Eve for Adam in the Garden of Eden when He first created the first man – God still places an extremely high value on personal friendships, and He will make sure to bring the right people and the right number of people in your life so you can each help each other out to go farther and fly higher in the Lord.

When Jesus first started to send the 12 apostles out to walk with His anointing, He would always send them out two-by-two.

Once you enter into a real supernatural walk with the Lord, you will go nuts if you do not have someone to share your walk with. There are simply too many good God things that will start to happen in your life, and you will need others to talk with, to vent with, to share with, to learn from one another, and to help keep each other on track.

I believe Jesus was giving us a major piece of revelation when He started sending the apostles out two-by-two instead of by themselves.

For those of you who have not been matched up with a good God-friend at this time – just go to God the Father in prayer and ask Him to bring you the right friend that would be best suited for you at your present level of spiritual development in Him.

Unless God is keeping you all to Himself for a reason and a season, there is no reason that God will not want to move on this request to bring you a true special God-friend in order to help accelerate your spiritual growth in Him.

If God did it for Adam in the Garden of Eden, then there is no reason that He would not want to do it for you.

Faithful friend is better than gold: английские пословицы о дружбе

Ничто не отражает дух и культуру народа настолько ярко и точно, как язык. Но именно пословицы являются истинным воплощением ценностей, приоритетов, вкусов, взаимоотношений, моральных установок народа, к тому же выраженных емко, образно и афористично.

Мы открываем новую рубрику нашего блога, в которой будут представлены тематические подборки оригинальных английских пословиц с их дословным переводом, аналогами на русском языке и историей их происхождения.

Знать пословицы необходимо потому, что они настолько прочно закрепились в народном характере и стали настолько неотъемлемой частью языка, что в повседневном общении сегодня редко употребляются в полной форме: обычно достаточно произнести только часть поговорки, чтобы выразить свое отношение к ситуации или метко ее охарактеризовать. На этом может быть построен юмор, сарказм, такая игра слов часто используется в заголовках СМИ, так что Вы рискуете не понять, в чем вся «соль», не зная первоначального выражения.

К тому же, в поговорках отражается национальное отношение к таким фундаментальным жизненным понятиям, как семья, здоровье или богатство. Сегодня мы остановимся на еще одном основополагающем элементе жизни – дружбе.

Дословный перевод: Птицы одного окраса собираются в стаи.

Аналог на русском: Рыбак рыбака видит издалека, одного поля ягода, масть к масти подбирается

Значение: Пословица пришла в английский из Саудовской Аравии и с 16 века используется, когда нужно подчеркнуть, что люди склонны устанавливать новые контакты и искать друзей с одинаковым культурным, социальным, экономическим статусом, похожими чертами характера, схожими вкусами, взглядами и интересами.

Дословный перевод: Нет лучшего зеркала, чем верный друг.

Значение: Человек, который знает тебя давно и прошел с тобой “through thick and through thin” – огонь и воду, обычно может дать более объективную оценку твоему поведению. Мы согласны с тем, что

Дословный перевод: Все, кто льстит нам, – не настоящие друзья.

Аналог на русском: Друг спорит, а недруг поддакивает.

Значение: Друзья способны беспристрастно отметить твои сильные и слабые стороны, справедливо указать на твои недостатки и достоинства. Хотя даже в «дружеской» критике нужно быть осторожным и не дойти до откровенного высмеивания. Британцы в таком случае прибавят:

Дословный перевод: Лучше приберечь остроту, чем потерять друга.

Значение: Даже самые близкие друзья могут обидеться на неуместную шутку или злой розыгрыш, тем более, если их поставил в неловкое или глупое положение человек, которому они доверяли. К сожалению, приходится признать, что

Дословный перевод: Близкое знакомство порождает презрение.

Аналог на русском: Чем больше знаешь, тем меньше ценишь.

Значение: Когда дружба только начинается, новый знакомый кажется удивительным, таинственным и интересным человеком. По мере того, как узнаешь о человеке все больше, сталкиваешься с его особенностями и недостатками, первоначальное восхищение может смениться разочарованием, бесцеремонностью и пренебрежением. Что называется,

Дословный перевод: Кончилась музыка, кончились и танцы.

Аналог на русском: Изжил нужду, забыл и дружбу. Скатерть со стола, друзья со двора.

Аналог на русском: В радости сыщут, в горе забудут.

Значение: Когда дружба больше не приносит радости или выгоды, многие решают разорвать отношения, но неизменно сожалеют впоследствии о потерянной дружбе. Тем не менее, даже если друг и соглашается возродить дружбу, на ум приходят следующие пословицы:

Дословный перевод: Заштопанная дружба не станет целой.

Дословный перевод: Дружба после примирения – незалеченная рана.

Аналог на русском: Замирённый друг ненадёжен.

Значение: Пережив однажды предательство друга, трудно избавиться от настороженности и обиды. Тем более, что человек, уже однажды злоупотребивший доверием, может пойти на такой шаг снова, делая дружбу еще более шаткой. В таких случаях обычно говрят:

Дословный перевод: Цепь не сильнее её самого слабого звена.

Аналог на русском: Где тонко, там и рвётся.

Значение: Если между друзьями уже есть некоторая холодность, разрыв может пройзойти в любой момент и по самому незначительному поводу. Некоторые люди, друзья которых поступили недостойно и вероломно, окончательно теряют веру в истинную дружбу и решают искать друзей только с позиции личной выгоды, ведь недаром

Дословный перевод: Лучше иметь друга в суде, чем монетку в кошельке.

Аналог на русском: Не имей сто рублей, а имей сто друзей. Что мне законы, коли судьи знакомы.

Значение: Пословица заимствована английскими авторами 14 в. из сочинений Цицерона как свидетельство тому, что иногда нужные связи, а не финансовые вложения помогают в решении проблемы. Британцы часто употребляют более современную поговорку:

Дословный перевод: Хорошо иметь приятелей и в раю, и в аду.

Аналог на русском: Связи решают все.

Значение: «Нужные» друзья могут пригодиться и в продвижении по карьерной лестнице, и даже при проблемах с законом. Тем не менее, имейте в виду, что

Дословный перевод: Дружить с влиятельным человеком – все равно, что дружить со львом.

Дословный перевод: Дружба сильных мира сего скоротечна, как тень.

Значение: Даже заручившись поддержкой человека со связями и влиянием, нельзя быть до конца уверенным в его благосклонности и преданности, ведь фавориты меняются быстро и немилосердно. Так что будьте осмотрительнее в выборе друзей, тем более, что

Дословный перевод: Человека определяют те, в обществе кого он бывает.

Аналог на русском: Скажи мне, кто твой друг, и я скажу, кто ты.

Значение: Эта пословица изначально была цитатой из древнегреческого драматурга Еврипида – «Every man is like the company he is wont to keep», которая со временем упростилась и стала универсально обозначать то, что на человека огромное влияние оказывает его ближайшее окружение. Этому посвящена еще одна поговорка:

Дословный перевод: Засыпая с собаками, будь готов проснуться блохастым.

Аналог на русском: С кем поведешься, от того и наберешься. С волками жить – по-волчьи выть.

Значение: Эта пословица вошла в обиход из сочинений Бенджамина Франклина, который в свою очередь позаимствовал изречение у Сенеки, чтобы подчеркнуть, что, попав в «плохую компанию», можно не только испортить свою репутацию, но и перенять от друзей ложные ценности и дурные привычки.

Дословный перевод: Тот, кто дружит со всеми, тот никому не друг.

Аналог на русском: Всем брат – никому не брат.

Значение: Эта пословица, рождение которой часто ошибочно приписываю Аристотелю, означает, что тот, кто кажется доброжелательным и дружелюбным со всеми, на самом деле оказывается лицемером. Подобные люди часто окружают людей влиятельных, именно поэтому появилась следующая пословица:

Дословный перевод: Богатые не ведают, кто их друзья.

Значение: Богатый человек не может быть до конца уверен, что те люди, которых он называет своими друзьями, не отвернутся от него, если он потеряет свой статус и достаток. Недаром говорят:

Аналог на русском: Друг познается в беде. Коня в рати узнаешь, а друга в беде. Хлеба нет, так и друзей не бывало.

Дословный перевод: Дружба рождается в вине и проверяется в слезах.

Дословный перевод: Дружба рождается в благополучии и проверяется в несчастье.

Аналог на русском: Не тот друг, кто на пиру гуляет, а тот, кто в беде помогает.

Аналог на русском: В радости сыщут, в горе забудут.

Значение: Верность и дружба действительно проверяется испытаниями, и дружба истинная от невзгод только укрепляется, ведь

Дословный перевод: Страдание за друга усиливает дружбу вдвое.

Значение: Вместе пережитая «черная полоса» только укрепляет привязанность и доверие в дружбе, и по-настоящему крепкая дружба проверяется годами. Недаром следующая пословица стала интернациональной:

Дословный перевод: Человека узнаешь, когда с ним пуд соли съешь.

Аналог на русском: Друг не испытанный – что орех не колотый.

Значение: Британцы поддерживают точку зрения, что дружба должна выдержать испытанием временем. Именно поэтому множество английских пословиц раскрывают скоротечность случайных знакомств:

Дословный перевод: Мала цена той дружбы, которая зарождается внезапно.

Дословный перевод: Друга не сторгуешь на ярмарке.

Дословный перевод: Стремительная дружба, неизбежное раскаяние.

Аналог на русском: Сердечный друг не родится вдруг.

Значение: Внезапно вспыхнувшая дружба может принести немало разочарований и проблем, особенно, если в дружбу вмешиваются деньги. Запомните:

Дословный перевод: Короче долг – крепче дружба.

Дословный перевод: Дружба и назойливое попрошайничество неразрывно связаны.

Аналог на русском: Дружба дружбой, а денежки/табачок врозь.

Значение: Даже самая прочная дружба не выдерживает испытания деньгами, неслучайно говорят: «Если хочешь потерять друга, дай ему денег в долг». Есть еще одна пословица, в которой фигурируют дружба и деньги:

Дословный перевод: Дружба словно деньги, проще их приобрести, чем сохранить.

Значение: Настоящим другом станет тот, с кем ты прожил бок о бок многие годы, с которым есть, что вспомнить, о чем поплакать и над чем посмеяться. Непоколебимая преданность и не вызывающая сомнений верность друзьям – это часть морального кодекса англичан, именно поэтому многие пословицы отражают ценность «долговечной дружбы»:

Аналог на русском: Вещь хороша, пока новая, а друг – когда старый. Старый друг лучше новых двух.

Аналог на русском: Новых друзей наживай, а старых не теряй.

Дорожите своей дружбой и не забывайте, что “The way to have a friend is to be one” – “Хочешь дружбы – будь другом”.

According to the dictionary friendship is a feeling and behaviour that exist between people, but what these feelings are and what this behaviour is everyone should decide for himself. I consider that friendship is a gift from the God. that’s why I highly appreciate it. I think it is hard to find a close friend because people are unique creatures of nature, all of them have their own habits, opinions and judgments which differ from others.

It makes sense to say that friendship can be compared to a tree. Its seed should find good soil and under favourable conditions it will grow into a tree. As the years go by the tree stands firmer and firmer on the ground and if it is strong enough it will survive all the storms and winds, but to help it we should take care of it and love it.

In my opinion lucky are the people who have real friends. As for me I’m happy to have lots of friends, some of them are close, some are less, but all of them make my life interesting and enjoyable and I can’t imagine my life without them, because friendship means very much for me. Being friends means making allowances for the other person’s faults, being tolerant to each other moods. The most important thing about friends for me is being able to share secrets, to tell each other your problems and share your worries, to help each other out.

But in my opinion it isn’t an easy thing to be a true friend and before somebody can name you his best friend you should prove your friendship. To my mind everyone can have only one or two true friends, because a friend to all is a friend to none. I believe that faithful friend can brighten your life and make it more interesting, vivid and enjoyable. You are interested in your friend with all his positive and negative traits of personality and your friend in his turn can understand and forgive you everything. You shouldn’t tell a lie to your friend, there mustn’t be hypocrisy in your speech and even in thoughts. Before telling your friend something, before doing anything you should think a lot and guess what kind influence it will render on him and on his life. So I think that it is difficult to be a real friend, but to my mind all of us try to achieve the ideal of a true friend.

I’m sure you will agree that nowadays there are various ways of acquaintance. Some people make friends when they are in guests or on weddings, others prefer to find friends with the help of newspapers or the Internet. Somebody can get acquainted with his future friend when he even doesn’t expect it, for example, when he simply walks in a park or goes anywhere by public transport.

What about me I have known my best friend Natasha almost all my life, but 1 can never forget our first meeting. It was in summer when our families decided to rest in the south together. When we drove up to their house my attention was attracted by a little tidy girl in a rose dress, who was sitting to squat and playing with her long blond curl, but I can’t say that my first impressions were the same as my opinion about her now, because meeting people for the first time we always make a judgment based on their appearance though the proverb tells us not to make such a mistake. At first she seemed to me so correct, obedient and shy that I didn’t like her, but when we began to communicate closer I understood I was mistaken. I think it makes sense to say that when we returned home we were loyal friends.

Today she has changed a lot but we are still best friends and now I think Natasha is a very charming and pretty seventeen-year-old girl. She isn’t tall and I can’t even say that she is of average height but she is always smart and elegant. Natasha has an attractive face which is broaden with open and frank features. She is the owner of a blunt nose, large expressive green eyes and radiant smile that immediately makes people smile in return. Her blond hair and sort voice make her similar to a little beautiful princess from a fairy-tale.

My friend likes casual clothes. Natasha hates skirts and formal blouses, but adores tight-fitting trousers and casual T-shirts. She prefers low-heeled shoes to high-heeled, because they are more comfortable to her mind.

I believe that Natasha is a very amazing girl, because she differs from other people. When she was about twelve she became a real tomboy, she communicated only with boys except me, she liked to play rough and boys’ games and she even decided to go to the army when she would come of age. All her friends and relatives tried to dissuade her and at least she agreed, but frankly speaking. I can’t understand her desire even now, though in general we are very alike. It’s true that Natasha is a very enthusiastic and active person, you can hardly find her sitting at one place without doing anything but in spite of it she constantly has no free time. My friend is a gregarious person and an optimist; she is never bored but always smiles and laughs, that is why I like her fascinating smile very much. I should say I can never be bored it my friend keeps company for me, because she is so cheerful and joyous. She is responsible and original, I think. Such friends like she can be characterized as devoted. frank and careful, because she can never refuse if I need support or a piece of advice, she is always eager to help me and to calm me with the help of a tender word. To my mind Natasha is an intelligent, skillful and diligent girl, that’s why her success in study is brilliant. Now she studies at gymnasium number 56 in physics-mathematics class. I’d like to add that she is a great daydreamer, because she has always got her head in the clouds and she is always dreaming about something.

But like other people she isn’t an ideal. Sometimes she is too lazy and stubborn and I dislike it a bit. She is rather impatient, because she can’t wait for long. But these features of her character don’t matter much for me; I try not to pay attention to them because in general she is a wonderful person, whom I worship a lot.

Though Natasha is a busy girl and she doesn’t have much free time, she always tries to find spare time for her hobbies and interests, because she has a lot of them. Most of all she likes to play computer games and solve various problems on it. She says she can’t imagine her life without this machine. When Natasha relaxes she likes to look through different interesting magazines and newspapers but she doesn’t like to read books, especially large books like «War and Piece» by Tolstoy. Sometimes she can write poems about love. It happens rarely but I’m always the first person who reads her poems and gives an objective mark. Natasha is fond of sport but this year she has very little time for it, because she is very busy with her studying, because she enters the university this year.

And unfortunately that is the main reason why we see each other quite rarely, but we phone each other almost every day, we try to meet on our days off and that’s why we don’t feel separation from each other. Though I can’t see Natasha every day I think about her all the time.

At these rare times when we see each other we like to attend cinema or central park, but most of all we like to speak. When we meet our mouths are never close because we can speak for hours, I can discuss with my best friend such problems that I can’t discuss with my parents. We speak about fellows and our relations with them, we discuss our problems with parents and share our thoughts and dreams. It doesn’t mean that I can’t say about all these things to my mother, but I know that nobody can understand me better than Natasha. I know that only she can support me and help me in everything, because we are very alike, we think in the same way and our points of view often coincide, but in spite of it I can’t say that nothing worries me in our relationships, though also I can’t say there are some real problems or misunderstandings between us. We see each other rather rarely, because we live in different districts and she is too busy even on days off and I dislike it a lot. I consider she is a bit disorderly and she can’t plan her day off in a right way, that’s why she doesn’t manage to do everything she wants. Natasha often has troubles and problems with her parents and it is another thing that worries me. I know her parents very well and to my mind they are wonderful people, but sometimes my friend can be rude to them and as a result they quarrel, when she tells me about such quarrels I can’t take her side because I don’t approve her behaviour, that’s why I prefer to keep silence in such situations. Sometimes her flippant attitude to some things worries me very much. In my opinion she is too flippant in her attitude to preventive words of others. But I believe that all these things can’t destroy our friendship, though they influence it a bit.

And of course in some cases our points of view can differ, for example, sometimes our opinions can be different in clothes, music or films. In such situations we freely express our points of view, we can even argue but we never suppress each other. To my mind thoughts, opinions and habits of your friend can influence you a lot, but they should not destroy your own personality, they shouldn’t influence you if you don’t want it. I’m happy that both of us understand it.

I believe that friendship should be sincere and. In my opinion your friend should be attentive to you, he or she should be reliable, honest and he or she should trust you, because, I think, trust probably the most important feeling that exists between friends, but it never appears by itself, it is the result of a long friendship.

As for our friendship, I’m sure it is strong enough because we trust each other as ourselves, we always share the same joys and troubles together and we support each other at difficult times. And it goes without saying that I like Natasha with all her positive and negative features of character and admire her a lot.

11 Important Qualities of a Good Friend

Good friends are not that hard to find as long as you know how to recognize them. But, unfortunately, sometimes, most people don’t even realize that they are already in the presence of one just because they’re too busy hanging out with the wrong crowd.

The best people you can have as friends may vary, and they have their own set of unique attitudes and personalities. They may be your funny classmate from your high school days or that thoughtful coworker who would always remind you to take it easy.

Sometimes, friends can come from the most unexpected introductions – that stranger whom you shared an umbrella with on a rainy afternoon or even a random acquaintance who suggested a good book for you to read over the weekends.

Qualities of a Good Friend

There are different types of individuals who can be good friends, and the following important qualities make them one of the best people in the world.

1. Loyal: Good friends stay even when everyone else has left.

When the entire world has already abandoned you, your good friends will be the only ones left to help you stand again – and it’s everything that you’ll ever need.

With their loyalty, good friends will never let you feel that you’re alone even if you think that you don’t deserve anyone, especially after a failure or a disappointment.

2. Accepting: A good friend doesn’t judge you for being different.

A good friend will respect your decisions and accept how you want to live your life – even if they don’t understand it. They will be there for you to help you celebrate the person you want to become. They will encourage you to recognize your uniqueness, and they will be there to help you face the world without the fear of being judged or rejected.

3. Honest: Good friends let you see reality as it is.

Good friends won’t sugarcoat things, especially if they know that letting you deny reality can eventually harm you. They will be there to slap you with the most painful truth, even if it means hurting your feelings. They are willing to look like the wrong person just to save you from a more devastating consequence.

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4. Caring: A good friend will remind you to be good to yourself.

They will remind you that you deserve self-love and that taking care of yourself should be one of your priorities.

5. Positive: Good friends can help you love life more.

Good friends are good for your mental and emotional health. These are the people who will tell you how to love life more, to be more optimistic, and how to live it to the fullest. They will be the reminders that life is an adventure that should not be kept waiting – and trust that they’ll be there to make every journey more fun and exciting.

6. Inspiring: A good friend teaches you how to become a better person.

Good friends are your real-life guide to becoming the best version of yourself. They will inspire you to be a better person by learning to be a more caring, loving, and kind individual. With their example, they will help you realize that you have a lot more to offer.

7. Patient: Good friends will be there – even when you’re at your worst.

Even when you’re not exactly an angel, trust your friends to be still around no matter how annoying or inconsiderate you become. This is because they recognize that not everyone is perfect, and everyone has their bad days.

Just make sure to make it up to them and thank them for sticking around, especially when you’re in your worst mood.

8. Comforting: Good friends make you feel safe and at peace with yourself.

A good friendship can be your sanctuary – a refuge from the chaos and the mess of work, school, and other aspects of your busy life. This is because good friends can quickly and effortlessly make you feel safe and at peace with yourself.

In the presence of good friends, you feel relaxed and secure, knowing that you’re with the people who genuinely love and care about you.

9. Present: A good friend always shows up when you need someone the most.

They will never be too busy or too occupied to spend time with you. They will always make sure that you won’t be alone in your most painful moments, and they will see to it that they’re there during your happiest celebrations.

Time and distance don’t matter to them because you are a big part of their life, and they’ll never hesitate to show or prove it.

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10. Supportive: A good friend believes in your potential to reach your dreams.

A good friend will always see the best in you – even if you’re already too ambitious. For them, you can do anything you put your soul into because they believe in your potential. They are your number one fans who will cheer you up in every victory, loss, accomplishment, or failure.

11. Committed: A good friend will always be in your life no matter what.

Even if they’re far away and regardless of the years that you’re apart, you will always have a friend in them – because a good friendship is forever. It’s the best kind of relationship that you will ever have with another person. It will never end: no breakups, no goodbyes – just pure love, respect, and appreciation of being connected with this particular soul.

You’re one of the lucky few if you have someone you think of as a good friend in your life. But, just as how they are good to you, you also have to do your part to make it work. How? Appreciate their existence and, most importantly, let them know that their presence in your life makes every day worthwhile through your words and actions.

Hopefully, this article was able to help you realize the true essence of friendship and how you can recognize a genuine friend when you’re in the presence of one.

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Being good to your friends is not only about helping them when they need help or being with them when they need someone to talk to. Good friends are more than that. They have patience, understanding, selflessness, and some sacrifice.

How to Be a Good Friend

Good and genuine friends are great to have in your life. But in order to earn them, you must also be a good friend to them. Here are 20 ways to be a good friend and even the best friend they can ever have.

1. Be a good listener.

Listen to your friends while they are talking and be enthusiastic about their life stories. A good friend is interested in what’s happening in their friends’ lives. So give them the chance to talk, listen eagerly, and make them feel that someone is interested in their stories too.

2. Admit your mistakes and weaknesses.

Avoid acting like an omnipotent and omniscient person. Understand that we cannot do or know everything. Being a know-it-all person will only annoy your friends. It will also make them feel that you don’t believe in them. To be a good friend, learn to humble yourself and show that like other human beings, you are also susceptible to making mistakes.

3. Be a peacemaker and learn to apologize sincerely.

Learn how to say sorry when you have hurt your friends, even if they have also hurt you. Be a peace-loving friend by being the first one to apologize. Prove your sincerity with humility.

4. Forgive them.

Forgive their sins even before they ask forgiveness from you. Some friends may not realize that they are already doing things that are offensive to you. Either you tell them frankly that they have offended you and they must apologize to you, or simply forgive them without telling them anyway. Your goal is to avoid hatred from growing and corrupting your heart.

5. Get rid of pride in your heart.

Pride is one of the most destructive forces in any relationship, including friendship. It’s not easy to show humility if your heart is corrupted by pride. With a proud heart, you will find it hard to apologize or forgive someone. Get rid of pride in your heart by being a more genuine friend who really cares. Cleanse your heart with kindness, love, and compassion. Don’t plant hatred in your heart, as it amplifies the pride that exists inside.

6. Help your friends because they need it, not because you need it.

In other words, help them or give something to them because it makes them happy, not because it makes you happy or gives you some comfort. Helping a friend should be done without self-interest.

7. Share your problems and ask for help.

Make your friends feel that they can be trusted by sharing your problems. Make them feel that they are also needed and are dependable by asking them for some help.

8. Love their loved ones.

Live in harmony with your friend’s loved ones, like their spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend, parents, other family members, and even other friends. Avoid getting jealous of them just because they also share in your friend’s time and attention.

9. Keep your promises and don’t lie.

Did you promise to be at your friend’s wedding day? Did you agree to go with them on a beach trip? Whatever your promises are, whether they are small or big, always deliver them. Do your best to not disappoint your friends.

10. Keep their secrets.

Keeping the secrets that they have entrusted you will show how trustworthy you are to them. Don’t make them feel betrayed. Take care and protect their secrets.

11. Share your secrets.

If you trust them, you will share your secrets with them. And if you are really a good friend, you won’t hide anything from them. Share your secrets to them as they tell you theirs.

12. Trust them more.

Trust your friends’ own decisions and actions. Understand that they know what’s best for themselves. Also, trust the good pieces of advice they give you. Do not ignore their warnings. Understand that they only want what’s good for you.

13. Learn how to take a joke.

Jokes among friends are what make friendship fun, not boring. Learn how to take your friends’ jokes. Do not get easily angered. Do not create a blockage that will hinder the fun and laughter inside your friendship. Be patient, understanding, and keep cool.

14. Show some respect.

Respect your friends’ privacy. Give them some space if they need it. Furthermore, respect your friends’ uniqueness. Be careful when dealing with the things which are sensitive to them, like the things that are related to their gender, family, and romantic relationships.

15. Be loyal.

Don’t exchange your friendship with money, popularity, and other selfish interests. Be loyal, not only to your friend but also to your friendship.

16. Don’t make them feel alone.

Never make your friends feel alone, even during a fight, argument or misunderstanding. Do not create a wall that will stop you from communicating, caring, and helping for good no matter what.

17. Help them grow as a person.

Do not corrupt your friends’ character. Instead, help them grow as a person. Be a role model of good virtues, like self-discipline, patience, persistence, honesty, and kindness.

18. Appreciate their efforts.

Whether it’s a small or big thing, learn to value what your friends have done for you. You may not know how much thinking, planning, time consuming, and efforts they have spent just to offer something for you. Of course, genuine friends will not expect something in return for any kindness they show you, but a little appreciation would not harm you.

19. Be their best support system.

People need a support system to go on and encourage them in their endeavors in life. One great supporter they can have is their friends. Be that friend who cheers them up to achieve their goals and dreams. Do not be that self-centered friend who competes with them and tries to pull them down.

20. Be selfless and make a sacrifice.

Real friends make sacrifices for their friends. Without sacrifice, you will find it hard to follow the tips above. Sacrifice your own pride to be humble enough to forgive your friends. Sacrifice your own time to be with them and not make them feel alone. Sacrifice your energy to help them in any way. And sacrifice your self-interest to make your friendship grow and even last forever.

Good friends are hard to find. If you cannot find them, find someone first within yourself. In other words, develop yourself to be a good friend to others. When you become a good person, you will naturally attract a lot of friends into your life. Just don’t forget to carefully choose who your close friends will be. Remember that bad company may corrupt your good character. Therefore, as a precaution, to maintain your goodness as a friend, choose good friends too.

15 Ways to Show Your Friends that You Care

1. Listen to their rants.
2. Tell them how much you care.
3. Appreciate and compliment them.
4. Be there when they need you.
5. Always communicate with them.
6. Make time with them.
7. Show them social media love.
8. Celebrate their accomplishments.
9. Surprise them!
10. Go on new adventures.
11. Encourage them during bad times.
12. Introduce them to someone you love.
13. Understand their struggle.
14. Ask them if they need help from you.
15. Be a loyal and caring friend for them every day.

Английские пословицы на тему дружба — proverbs about friendship (с переводом и озвучиванием)

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Дружба занимает одно из наиболее важных мест в жизни любого человека, в каком бы уголке мира он ни находился. Возможно, именно поэтому многие пословицы о дружбе на различных языках имеют схожее значение, а порой и вовсе совпадают по звучанию.

Какие же пословицы о дружбе являются наиболее популярными в английском языке, и каковы их аналоги на русском? Это вы можете узнать из приведенной ниже таблицы. Если бы вы хотели дополнить таблицу или сообщить о неточностях, оставьте комментарий к данной статье, и мы обязательно рассмотрим ваши замечания и предложения!

​ языке с переводом помогут вам выразить свое отношение к тому, с кем вы общаетесь в жизни и просто переписываетесь в социальных сетях. Тема дружбы понятна и близка каждому, во все времена она волновала умы не только простых людей, но и писателей и философов.

Подборка статусов про дружбу на английском с переводом
состоит не только из красивых фраз о дружбе, но и запоминающихся изречений великих людей. Тем, кто учит английский язык полезно прочитать и запомнить статусы на английском языке с переводом
, а затем использовать их для того, чтобы разнообразить свою речь и показать друзьям, как много они для вас значат.

A faithful friend is hard to find; remember man and keep in mind.Верного друга найти не легко, запомни это и помни всегда.

Friendship isn»t a big thing — it»s a million little things.Дружба это не что-то одно большое — это множество мелочей.

A road to a friend’s house is never long.Дорога к дому друга никогда не бывает длинной.

Quotes and proverbs about friends and friendship — English for everyone

Quotes and proverbs about friends and friendship

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. Fr. Jerome Cummings — Друг это тот, кто знает нас, но любит нас в любом случае. Джером Каммингс

What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies. Aristotle — Что такое друг? Одна душа в двух телах. Аристотель

A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle — Друг для всех – друг ни для кого. Аристотель

The only way to have a friend is to be one. R. W. Emerson — Единственный способ иметь друга – быть им. Р. У. Эмерсон

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. Italian Proverb — Только ваши настоящие друзья скажут вам, когда ваше лицо грязное. Итальянская пословица

Friends and wine should be old. Spanish Proverb — Друзья и вино должны быть старыми. Испанская пословица

The road to a friend’s house is never long. Danish Proverb — Дорога к дому друга никогда не бывает долгой. Датская пословица

Tell me who’s your friend and I’ll tell you who you are. Russian Proverb — Скажи мне, кто твой друг, и я скажу тебе, кто ты. Русская пословица

Books and friends should be few but good. Greek Proverb — Книг и друзей должно быть мало, но они должны быть хорошими. Греческая пословица

On the road between homes of friends, grass does not grow. Norwegian Proverb — На дороге между домами друзей трава не растет. Норвежская пословица

Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver, the other is gold. English Proverb — Заводите новых друзей, но сохраняйте старых, один серебряный, а другой золотой. Английская пословица

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. A. Lincoln — Лучший способ уничтожить врага – сделать его своим другом. А. Линкольн

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. Swedish Proverb — Дружба удваивает нашу радость и разделяет наше горе. Шведская пословица

A friend in need is a friend indeed. Latin Proverb — Друг познается в беде. Латинская пословица

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. W. Winchell — Настоящий друг это тот, кто входит, когда остальная часть мира выходит. В. Уинчелл

A friend is a gift you give yourself. R. L. Stevenson — Друг это подарок, который вы дарите себе. Р. Л. Стивенсон

You will make more friends in a week by getting yourself interested in other people than you can in a year by trying to get people interested in you. A. Bennett — Вы заведете больше друзей за неделю, интересуясь другими людьми, чем вы сможете завести за год, пытаясь заставить людей интересоваться вами. А. Беннет

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. H. Keller — Прогулка с другом в темноте лучше, чем ходить в одиночку на свету. Х. Келлер

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr. — В конечном счете, мы будем помнить не слова наших врагов, а молчание наших друзей. Мартин Лютер Кинг младший.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. John D. Rockerfeller — Дружба, основанная на бизнесе, лучше, чем бизнес, основанный на дружбе. Джон Д. Рокфеллер

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. A. Camus — Не иди передо мной, я могу не последовать за тобой. Не иди за мной, я могу не повести. Просто иди рядом со мной и будь моим другом. А. Камю

Faithful friend is better than gold: английские пословицы о дружбе

Ничто не отражает дух и культуру народа настолько ярко и точно, как язык. Но именно пословицы являются истинным воплощением ценностей, приоритетов, вкусов, взаимоотношений, моральных установок народа, к тому же выраженных емко, образно и афористично.

Мы открываем новую рубрику нашего блога, в которой будут представлены тематические подборки оригинальных английских пословиц с их дословным переводом, аналогами на русском языке и историей их происхождения.

Знать пословицы необходимо потому, что они настолько прочно закрепились в народном характере и стали настолько неотъемлемой частью языка, что в повседневном общении сегодня редко употребляются в полной форме: обычно достаточно произнести только часть поговорки, чтобы выразить свое отношение к ситуации или метко ее охарактеризовать. На этом может быть построен юмор, сарказм, такая игра слов часто используется в заголовках СМИ, так что Вы рискуете не понять, в чем вся «соль», не зная первоначального выражения.

К тому же, в поговорках отражается национальное отношение к таким фундаментальным жизненным понятиям, как семья, здоровье или богатство. Сегодня мы остановимся на еще одном основополагающем элементе жизни – дружбе.

Дословный перевод: Нет лучшего зеркала, чем верный друг.

Значение: Человек, который знает тебя давно и прошел с тобой “through thick and through thin” – огонь и воду, обычно может дать более объективную оценку твоему поведению. Мы согласны с тем, что

Дословный перевод: Все, кто льстит нам, – не настоящие друзья.

Аналог на русском: Друг спорит, а недруг поддакивает.

Значение: Друзья способны беспристрастно отметить твои сильные и слабые стороны, справедливо указать на твои недостатки и достоинства. Хотя даже в «дружеской» критике нужно быть осторожным и не дойти до откровенного высмеивания. Британцы в таком случае прибавят:

Дословный перевод: Лучше приберечь остроту, чем потерять друга.

Значение: Даже самые близкие друзья могут обидеться на неуместную шутку или злой розыгрыш, тем более, если их поставил в неловкое или глупое положение человек, которому они доверяли. К сожалению, приходится признать, что

Дословный перевод: Близкое знакомство порождает презрение.

Аналог на русском: Чем больше знаешь, тем меньше ценишь.

Значение: Когда дружба только начинается, новый знакомый кажется удивительным, таинственным и интересным человеком. По мере того, как узнаешь о человеке все больше, сталкиваешься с его особенностями и недостатками, первоначальное восхищение может смениться разочарованием, бесцеремонностью и пренебрежением. Что называется,

Дословный перевод: Кончилась музыка, кончились и танцы.

Аналог на русском: Изжил нужду, забыл и дружбу. Скатерть со стола, друзья со двора.

Аналог на русском: В радости сыщут, в горе забудут.

Значение: Когда дружба больше не приносит радости или выгоды, многие решают разорвать отношения, но неизменно сожалеют впоследствии о потерянной дружбе. Тем не менее, даже если друг и соглашается возродить дружбу, на ум приходят следующие пословицы:

Дословный перевод: Заштопанная дружба не станет целой.

Дословный перевод: Дружба после примирения – незалеченная рана.

Аналог на русском: Замирённый друг ненадёжен.

Значение: Пережив однажды предательство друга, трудно избавиться от настороженности и обиды. Тем более, что человек, уже однажды злоупотребивший доверием, может пойти на такой шаг снова, делая дружбу еще более шаткой. В таких случаях обычно говрят:

Дословный перевод: Лучше иметь друга в суде, чем монетку в кошельке.

Аналог на русском: Не имей сто рублей, а имей сто друзей. Что мне законы, коли судьи знакомы.

Значение: Пословица заимствована английскими авторами 14 в. из сочинений Цицерона как свидетельство тому, что иногда нужные связи, а не финансовые вложения помогают в решении проблемы. Британцы часто употребляют более современную поговорку:

Дословный перевод: Дружить с влиятельным человеком – все равно, что дружить со львом.

Про дружбу на английском (About Friendship) — 16 полезных фраз ⋆ Быстрый английский

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Про дружбу на английском – About Friendship

Цитаты знаменитых людей и пословицы

Washington, George (Вашингтон, Джордж)

Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company

Водись с хорошими людьми, если ценишь свою собственную репутацию, поскольку лучше быть одному, чем в компании с плохими людьми.

Proverb (Пословица)

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Истинный друг познается в беде.

Spencer (Спенсер)

Better a new friend than an old foe.

Лучше новый друг, чем старый враг.

Proverb (Пословица)

A man is known by the company he keeps.

Скажи мне, кто твой друг, и я скажу, кто ты.

King (Кинг)

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Friendship cannot stand always on one side.

Дружба должна быть взаимной.

Пословицы и поговорки про дружбу — о друзьях и дружбе на английском языке

Ничто не отражает дух и культуру народа настолько ярко и точно, как язык. Но именно пословицы являются истинным воплощением ценностей, приоритетов, вкусов, взаимоотношений, моральных установок народа, к тому же выраженных емко, образно и афористично.

Отметим! К тому же, в поговорках отражается национальное отношение к таким фундаментальным жизненным понятиям, как семья, здоровье или богатство. Сегодня мы остановимся на еще одном основополагающем элементе жизни – дружбе.

Faithful friend is better than gold: английские пословицы о дружбе

Дословный перевод: Нет лучшего зеркала, чем верный друг.

Значение: Человек, который знает тебя давно и прошел с тобой “through thick and through thin” – огонь и воду, обычно может дать более объективную оценку твоему поведению. Мы согласны с тем, что

Дословный перевод: Все, кто льстит нам, – не настоящие друзья.

Аналог на русском: Друг спорит, а недруг поддакивает.

Значение: Друзья способны беспристрастно отметить твои сильные и слабые стороны, справедливо указать на твои недостатки и достоинства. Хотя даже в «дружеской» критике нужно быть осторожным и не дойти до откровенного высмеивания. Британцы в таком случае прибавят:

Дословный перевод: Лучше приберечь остроту, чем потерять друга.

Значение: Даже самые близкие друзья могут обидеться на неуместную шутку или злой розыгрыш, тем более, если их поставил в неловкое или глупое положение человек, которому они доверяли. К сожалению, приходится признать, что

Дословный перевод: Близкое знакомство порождает презрение.

Аналог на русском: Чем больше знаешь, тем меньше ценишь.

Значение: Когда дружба только начинается, новый знакомый кажется удивительным, таинственным и интересным человеком. По мере того, как узнаешь о человеке все больше, сталкиваешься с его особенностями и недостатками, первоначальное восхищение может смениться разочарованием, бесцеремонностью и пренебрежением. Что называется,

Дословный перевод: Кончилась музыка, кончились и танцы.

Аналог на русском: Изжил нужду, забыл и дружбу. Скатерть со стола, друзья со двора.

Аналог на русском: В радости сыщут, в горе забудут.

Значение: Когда дружба больше не приносит радости или выгоды, многие решают разорвать отношения, но неизменно сожалеют впоследствии о потерянной дружбе. Тем не менее, даже если друг и соглашается возродить дружбу, на ум приходят следующие пословицы:

Дословный перевод: Заштопанная дружба не станет целой.

Дословный перевод: Дружба после примирения – незалеченная рана.

Аналог на русском: Замирённый друг ненадёжен.

Значение: Пережив однажды предательство друга, трудно избавиться от настороженности и обиды. Тем более, что человек, уже однажды злоупотребивший доверием, может пойти на такой шаг снова, делая дружбу еще более шаткой. В таких случаях обычно говрят:

Дословный перевод: Лучше иметь друга в суде, чем монетку в кошельке.

Аналог на русском: Не имей сто рублей, а имей сто друзей. Что мне законы, коли судьи знакомы.

Значение: Пословица заимствована английскими авторами 14 в. из сочинений Цицерона как свидетельство тому, что иногда нужные связи, а не финансовые вложения помогают в решении проблемы. Британцы часто употребляют более современную поговорку:

Дословный перевод: Дружить с влиятельным человеком – все равно, что дружить со львом.

Английские пословицы на тему

A bad compromise is better a good lawsuit.

Худой мир лучше доброй ссоры.

A good Jack makes a good Jill.

У хорошего мужа и жена хороша.

A good wife makes a good husband.

У хорошей жены и муж молодец.

All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?

Все невесты хороши, а откуда берутся дурные (злые) жёны?

Children and fools must not play with edged tools.

Дети и дураки не должны играть острыми инструментами.

False friends are worse than open enemies.

Друг до поры хуже недруга.

Happy is he that is happy in his children.

На что клад, коли дети идут в лад.

He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.

Хороший друг в лицо ругает, а за глаза хвалит.

He that has no children knows not what love is.

Тот, у кого нет детей, не знает, что такое любовь.

Про дружбу на английском языке. Faithful friend is better than gold: английские пословицы о дружбе

одновременно учат нас ценить настоящих друзей, и предостерегают нас от того, чтобы мы излишне не доверяли людям. Понять кто перед нам друг или враг мы можем только лишь столкнувшись с жизненными трудностями.

Английские пословицы про дружбу
необходимо знать, так как дружба занимает очень важное место в жизни как детей так и взрослых.

Именно поэтому пословицы о дружбе на английском языке
очень популярны, их можно встретить как в детских сказках и мультфильмах, так и в серьезных произведениях.

Употребляя в своей речи английские пословицы и поговорки о дружбе
вы сможете показать своим собеседникам, что вы разбираетесь в людях и умеете ценить искреннюю дружбу. А также английские пословицы о дружбе с переводом
необходимо хорошо знать так как они нередко используются в литературных произведениях, фильмах и сериалах.

A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
Перевод: Треснувшую дружбу можно склеить, но она никогда уже не будет прочной.

Русский аналог: Замирённый друг ненадежен.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Перевод: Друг в беде есть настоящий друг.Русские аналоги:Друзья познаются в беде.Коня в рати узнаешь, друга в беде.

Друг познается в несчастье.

A friend is never known till needed.
Перевод: Друга не узнаешь, пока не понадобится его помощь.Русские аналоги:Неиспытанный друг ненадежен.

Без беды друга не узнаешь.

A friend to all is a friend to none.
Перевод: Тот, кто друг всем, не является другом никому.Русские аналоги:Всем брат — никому не брат.Приятелей много, да друга нет.

И много друзей, да нет дружка.

A friend»s frown is better than a foe»s smile.
Перевод: Лучше хмурое лицо друга, чем улыбка врага.Русские аналоги:Лучше горькая правда друга, чем лесть врага.

Недруг поддакивает, а друг спорит.

A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
Перевод: Шуткой врага не задобришь, а друга можешь оттолкнуть.Русские аналоги:Шути, да осторожно, а то в беду попасть можно.Шутки шути, да людей не мути.

Шути, да оглядывайся.

A man is known by the company he keeps.
Перевод: Человек узнается по его друзьям.Русские аналоги:Скажи мне, кто твой друг, и я скажу тебе, кто ты.

С кем хлеб — соль водишь, на того и походишь.

All are not friends that speak us fair.
Перевод: He всяк тот друг, кто нас хвалит.

Русский аналог: Не всякому другу верь.

Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
Перевод: Прежде чем с человеком подружиться, съешь с ним бушель соли.Русские аналоги:Не узнавай друга в три дня, узнавай в три года.Человека узнаешь, когда с ним пуд соли съешь.

Человека узнаешь, как из семи печек с ним щей похлебаешь.

Better an open enemy than a false friend.
Перевод: Лучше иметь явного врага, чем лицемерного друга.

Русский аналог: Не та собака кусает, что лает, а та, что молчит да хвостом виляет.

Better be alone than in bad company.
Перевод: Лучше быть одному, чем в плохой компании.

Русский аналог: С добрыми дружись, а лукавых сторонись.

Better lose a jest than a friend.
Перевод: Лучше воздержаться от шутки, чем потерять друга.Русские аналоги:Не шути с таким ты шуток, кто на всяко слово чуток.

Не шути над тем, что дорого другому.

Even reckoning makes long friends.
Перевод: Сведение счетов укрепляет дружбу.Русские аналоги:Счет дружбе не помеха.Счет дружбы не портит.Чаще счет — крепче дружба.

Счет чаще — дружба слаще.

False friends are worse than open enemies.
Перевод: Фальшивые друзья хуже явных врагов.

Русский аналог: Друг до поры — хуже недруга.

Не that has a full purse never wanted a friend.
Перевод: У кого мошна полна, у того и друзей хватает.

Русский аналог: Кому счастье дружит, тому и люди.

Old friends and old wine are best.
Перевод: Нет ничего лучше старых друзей и старого вина.

Русский аналог: Вещь хороша, пока новая, а друг — когда старый.

Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.
Перевод: Процветание собирает вокруг друзей, а несчастье испытывает их дружбу.Русские аналоги:Друг познается при рати да при беде.

Друзья познаются в беде.

Short debts (accounts) make long friends.
Перевод: Короче долг — крепче дружба.Русские аналоги:Чаще счет-крепче дружба.Счет дружбы не теряет (не портит).

Счет дружбе не помеха.

Не is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
Перевод: Тот хороший друг, который о нас за глаза хорошее говорит.

Русский аналог: Хороший друг в лицо ругает, а за глаза хвалит.

​ языке с переводом помогут вам выразить свое отношение к тому, с кем вы общаетесь в жизни и просто переписываетесь в социальных сетях. Тема дружбы понятна и близка каждому, во все времена она волновала умы не только простых людей, но и писателей и философов.

Подборка статусов про дружбу на английском с переводом
состоит не только из красивых фраз о дружбе, но и запоминающихся изречений великих людей. Тем, кто учит английский язык полезно прочитать и запомнить статусы на английском языке с переводом
, а затем использовать их для того, чтобы разнообразить свою речь и показать друзьям, как много они для вас значат.

A faithful friend is hard to find; remember man and keep in mind.Верного друга найти не легко, запомни это и помни всегда.

Friendship isn»t a big thing — it»s a million little things.Дружба это не что-то одно большое — это множество мелочей.

A road to a friend’s house is never long.Дорога к дому друга никогда не бывает длинной.

Особенности перевода английских пословиц с репрезентантами концепта «дружба» на русский язык

Баймуратова Ульяна Сергеевна

научный руководитель, канд. филол. наук, кафедра теории и практики перевода, факультет филологии и журналистики,

Оренбургский государственный университет, РФ, г. Оренбург

Величайшее богатство народа – это его язык! На сегодняшний день изучение английского языка широко распространено, на нем свободно говорят более 300 миллионов человек населения нашей планеты.

Нужно понимать, что знание его необходимо, потому что это язык общения, бизнеса, науки и культуры во всем мире.

Знание языка предполагает не только хорошее произношение, богатый словарный запас и правильное употребление грамматических структур, но и знание культуры, национальных особенностей и истории языка.

Пословицы и поговорки, накопленные тысячелетиями, наиболее ярко отражают быт народа, его национальную историю, культуру и мировоззрение. Следовательно, их изучение помогает раскрыть национальные особенности народа. Понять же смысл пословиц возможно только путем их сравнения друг с другом.

Наше исследование является актуальным, так как для людей, изучающих иностранные языки, важно знать часто употребляемые пословицы, чтобы правильно понимать их смысл, подбирая нужные эквиваленты в родном языке, избегая дословного перевода. Все это будет полезно при непосредственном общении с носителями языка.

Проблемы перевода фразеoлогии в целом затрагивают многие исследователи: В.С. Винoградов, Н.Л. Шадрин, Е.Ф. Арсентьева, А.В. Федоров. В.Н. Комиссаров, наиболее подробно рассматривает трудности, связанные с переводом фразеологических единиц рассмотрены в работах Ю.П. Солодуба, Л.Ф.

Дмитриевой, С.Е. Кунцевич, Е.А. Мартинкевич, Н.Ф. Смирновой. Как мы видим, пословицы английского языка вносят определенный колорит в ежедневное общение и действительно заслуживают отдельного тщательного изучения.

Объектом данной работы являются пословицы английского и русского языков с репрезентантами компонента «дружба», предметом – особенности их перевода. Цель нашего исследования заключается в переводческом анализе вербальных единиц концепта «дружба» в пословицах.

Основными задачами являются сопоставление и классификация переводов английских и русских пословиц с репрезентантами концепта «дружба». Следует отметить, что в нашей работе были использованы сравнительно-сопоставительный и классификационный методы.

Материалом исследования послужили различные русские и английские словари (С.И. Ожегова, В.И. Даля, М. Буковской, М. Дубровина, И. Митиной) [1; 3; 4; 5; 6].

В первую очередь необходимо выяснить четкое определение пословицы, для этого мы обратились к толковому словарю С.И. Ожегова, где сказано, что «пословица – это краткое народное изречение с назидательным содержанием, народный афоризм» [5]. Пословица неизменно несет в себе поучительный, назидательный смысл испокон веков.

Говорят, если хочешь узнать больше о характере народа, его национальных отличиях, изучи пословицы и послушай песни людей. Нужно уметь отличать пословицу от поговорки. Поговорка более приближена к идиоме, как отмечено в словаре С.И. Ожегова: «краткое устойчивое выражение, преимущ.

образное, не составляющее, в отличие от пословицы, законченного высказывания» [5].

Пословицы и поговорки содержат огромный опыт, накопленный поколениями, а так же украшают речь и делают ее более выразительной и красочной.

Многовековой опыт и история народов, пишущих и говорящих на разных языках, свидетельствует о том, что хороший переводчик должен не только хорошо понимать смысл переводимого текста, но и владеть фразеологическим богатством языка народа, на язык которого осуществляется перевод. Как у английского, так и у русского языков свои законы. Учитывая все особенности, переводить то, что является частью культуры одного народа на другой язык очень сложно. Дословный перевод пословиц и поговорок не всегда раскрывает смысл полностью, поэтому следует подобрать соответствующий эквивалент. Без которого практически невозможно понять, о чем говорит собеседник.

На первом этапе работы были собраны и соотнесены с русскими эквивалентами 20 английских пословиц, которые содержат репрезентанты концепта «дружба». В результате нами были выделены следующие группы.

Таблица 1.

Пословицы с репрезентантом концепта «дружба» аналогичные по значению, употреблению и лексическому составу

В данной группе преимущественно функционируют такие лексемы как: friend / друг; friendship / дружба; unsinkable / непотопляемый; playmate / товарищ. Также следует отметить, что в соотносимых пословицах двух языков, содержится уважение к старым, выдержанным отношениям, что обозначено лексемой old / старый.

Таблица 2.

Пословицы с репрезентантом концепта «дружба» аналогичные по значению и употреблению, возможность подбора эквивалента (рекомендуется)

При изучении перевода пословиц из третьей группы мы сталкиваемся с проблемой соотношения эквивалентности и адекватности перевода. В.

Комиссаров дает такое определение эквивалентности: «Общность содержания текстов оригинала и перевода называется эквивалентностью перевода(оригиналу)» [6].

А под адекватностью перевода понимает: «адекватный перевод – перевод, предполагающий соответствие тем ожиданием, которые возлагают на него участники коммуникации, а также тем условиям, в которых он осуществляется» [там же].

При переводе пословиц адекватность доминирует над эквивалентностью, так как главной целью такого перевода является правильное донесение смысловой нагрузки изречения, мы можем наблюдать это в переводе пословиц третьей группы.

Таким образом, рассмотрев английские и русские пословицы с компонентом «дружба», можно сделать следующие выводы.

Все пословицы английского и русского языков можно разделить на три группы в зависимости от функционирования репрезентантов в том или ином языке. После сопоставления некоторые из них оказались практически аналогичны русским пословицам, их значение и ситуация употребления становились понятны сразу.

В другом случае значение пословиц было в целом понятно, и были выявлены как возможность употребления дословного перевода, так и возможность подбора русского эквивалента. Большую группу составляют пословицы, где репрезентанты переводятся одной и той же частью речи.

В третьем же случае значение пословицы понятно, но оно не является подходящим по тематике, и дословное употребление его невозможно, в связи с чем, подбор русского эквивалента обязателен. Таким образом, полученные в результате работы данные были проанализированы и классифицированы.

В основу классификации были положены особенности перевода английских пословиц на русский язык.

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275 Friendship Quotes To Celebrate Your Friends

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What do you value most in a friend? These friendship quotes show how special great friends truly are.

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Friendship Quotes

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes heart warm.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘I’m here for you’ and PROVED it.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.

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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

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.

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

No matter how tired I am, I get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends. Or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just all work.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

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The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

Friendship my definition is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘You too? I thought I was the only one.’

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

Edward Young, Night Thoughts

If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.

Friendship isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things.

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.

No road is long with good company.

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Friend Quotes

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.

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Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Henry David Thoreau

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.

I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.

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.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.

The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

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A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.

We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.

I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.

A friend is someone who understand your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

I have friends, I have associates, and I have friends.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Winning friends begins with friendliness.

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.

Caroline Sheridan Norton

Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn’t.

Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends.

Henry Travers, It’s a Wonderful Life

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

Eli Wallach, The Godfather Part III

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.

There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.

Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they are there.

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.

Vince Vaughan, Wedding Crashers

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

They make me stronger; they make me braver.

Best Friend Quotes

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

A best friend is like a fourleaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.

Bill Waterston, Calvin and Hobbes

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

I think about my best friendship – which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on – as like a great romance of my young life.

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

Diane von Furstenberg

When a man’s best friend is his dog… That dog has a problem.

She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.

The best mirror is an old friend.

What do you do with your best friend? You do nothing.

It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.

Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.

I’ve known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?

A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again.

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how ‘cool’ you are? Well, now you’re picking a friend for life.

You can’t describe your best friends in words. You can describe them with memories that you had with them.

A bosom friend an intimate friend, you know a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.

Ooh you’re the best friend that I ever had. I’ve been with you such a long time. You’re my sunshine and I want you to know. That my feelings are true. I really love you. Oh you’re my best friend.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Talking to your best friend is sometimes all the therapy you need.

Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about.

Best friend isn’t just a name. A best friend is someone who’s there for you, no matter what. You can trust them, with anything and everything. Best friends share tears and laughs, almost like their emotions are intertwined. Most importantly, you can always count on a best friend.

Best friends? Well, I guess you could call us that but I think we are more like sisters.

Nothing compares to the pain of a belly ache from laughing too hard with your best friend.

You can always tell when two people are best friends because they are having more fun than it makes sense for them to be having.

A good friend knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you.

You know, real life doesn’t just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can’t just say, ‘She’s my best friend.’ That’s not a given, it’s a process.

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.

When it hurts to look back, and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.

Are we going to be friends forever?’ Asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.

Oh, you’re the best friends anybody ever had. And it’s funny, but I feel as if I’d known you all the time, but I couldn’t have, could I?

Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them.

True Friendship Quotes

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Herny David Thoreau

True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people together.

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

If you wanna find out who’s a true friend, screw up or go through a challenging time… Then see who sticks around.

Only a true friend would be that truly honest.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

A true friend is someone who will always love you—the imperfect, the confused, the wrong you because that is what people are supposed to do.

True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de la Fontaine

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

Did these friendship quotes remind you of your favorite friends?

However long its been since you were in touch, reach out and make their day by sharing one of these great friend quotes with them.

10 Obvious Signs God Wants You To Be With Someone

how to know if God wants you to be with someone

Nowadays the twilight zone before a relationship becomes official is more confusing than ever.

It starts with all the different words we use to describe our relationship status. Are you “dating”, “courting”, or “talking to each other”?

It gets so “complicated”, as Facebook states it. So much so that many of us forget the primary purpose for this season. To evaluate whether or not he is the one whom God has for you.

Even though you might have an idea of what you consider “husband material”, you might not know what signs to look for and how to know God’s will in a relationship.

Because the last thing you want is to let your feelings and emotions take over and distract you from discerning well, like with a soul tie. You want to be attentive and aware so that you can date with purpose.

While it is oftentimes easy to tell when God wants you to let go of someone, based on his actions and words. There are also clear signs God wants you to be with someone that you can look out for.

That’s why in this post, I am sharing how to know if God wants you to be with someone.

But before we get into the exact signs God wants you to be with someone, let’s take a look at how you can recognize them.

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How to recognize signs from God about relationships

As your father and protector, God is constantly speaking to you. He gives you hints and signs all throughout the day about every aspect of your life. Including your romantic relationships.

It’s when we are too obsessed with a specific outcome and the fulfillment of our own will that we miss out on hearing from Him.

Because our own fears and desires are clouding our thoughts.

But you can change that. You can develop the kind of relationship where you can tell spot the signs God wants you to be with someone or not.

All you need to do is draw close to him and desire to hear his voice regularly. Not just when you are in dire need. Question your motives and make sure it isn’t for selfish reasons.

Moreover, remember that God communicates in many forms and will speak to you through your mind, the word, and other believers.

Once you master hearing his voice, it becomes much easier to tell if God wants you to be with someone.

10 Signs God wants you to be with someone

1. The relationship glorifies God

How to know if God wants you to be with someone?

Easy. If being with him doesn’t compromise your relationship with God, but rather strengthens it.

The one God has for you will have a similar desire for God as you. He will encourage you to pursue Christ. He will have similar morals and values and lead a life in which he puts God first.

Because, believe me, God won’t send you someone that corrupts your character or leads you astray. Therefore, you will know that your relationship glorifies God if your conversations and activities honor God with your body, mind, and soul.

2. He’s your answered prayer

The second one of the signs God wants you to be with someone is that the man you are dating is your answered prayer.

While I really don’t want to encourage any of you to treat God like a genie who will cater to unrealistic expectations of a man. I want to encourage you that God knows you and knows the man he has for you.

Therefore, one way to tell if he is “The One” is if the guy you are with possesses the godly characteristics you prayed for.

If you sincerely prayed for your future husband to be kind, loving, and wise then you know God has ordained the relationship if he answered your prayer.

Remember that God has created every single person on this earth. He knows exactly who is right for you and will send him when the time is right. Therefore you won’t have to settle, compromise, or drop your standards if they are godly.

3. He makes you love yourself

There is a very real assumption that if you feel comfortable around your partner without make-up then he’s the one. And that’s very true! But I believe you have to drop more than just your make-up.

Namely the walls around your heart.

Because one way how to know if he’s the one God has for you is when you feel completely comfortable being vulnerable!

Sometimes sharing our deepest secrets and biggest flaws can be a challenge. We are scared that he might not like it and leave, or we may simply be ashamed of them.

However, the right one will make you feel good about yourself and love you just the way you are. So if you can confide in him and love seeing yourself through his eyes, then he might just be the one that God has for you.

4. You make each other better

The fact is every relationship, no matter if romantic or not, will either add to your life or subtract from it.

And the man God wants you to be with will add to it.

God won’t send you someone that drains your energy and disturbs your peace, but he will lead you to a man that edifies you. This man will be a safe haven for your thoughts and dreams, and he will believe and support you on your journey.

So ask yourself the following questions: Does he have your back when life is hard? Does he boost your confidence when you feel like giving up?

If he’s the right one for you, he will support you when you face challenges and vice versa and the two of you will make each other better.

5. You become part of each other’s life

One way to know that a man is dating you with intention is if he prioritizes spending time with you every week. While your life should not revolve around each other, they definitely should include each other.

You will notice that before he makes plans with his friends, he ensures that you get to spend time with each other first.

And whenever he has exciting news to share or something to talk about you are the first person that he contacts. The truth is the best relationships are the ones where the couple considers each other as best friends and truly share their lives.

When you have a true bond that is built on real intimacy and not just physical attraction you will enjoy spending time together and talking for hours so much more.

6. His actions speak louder than his words

We all know the very popular phrase “If a guy likes you, he will make the effort!“. And I could not agree more!

One thing I believe God does when he wants you to be with someone is that he will send you very clear signs of whether or not the other person is the one for you.

That’s why you have to pay close attention to his words and actions. Do they match? A man who is in it for the long run wants to be trustworthy and make sure that he’s reliable.

He won’t say one thing and do another. But rather show you with his actions that he is serious about you.

Many men will speak about all the things they want to do, but only a few will actually follow up and put in the work. And they will only do so for the woman they value.

When God sends you a man, that man will have integrity and stand by his word.

7. He knows what he wants

We live in a time where we can connect with hundreds of people through online dating. And that has influenced a man’s desire to commit to one woman.

A lot of them are scared that they might find someone “better” after they are already committed to you, but if you ask them what “better” is, they can’t seem to put it in words.

If God put him in your life, that will not be the case for him. He will know you are the right one for him, based on your personality, actions, and most likely your looks (yes attraction does play a role).

A man who knows what he wants will show you by stating his intentions for the relationship early on. He will have a vision for the relationship he is looking for and the type of woman he wants in it.

8. He pursues you

We all know the saying and the movie “He’s just not that into you”.

One of the many signs that you are dating someone that just isn’t that into you is that he will not put in an effort to be with you. Every interaction will be initiated by you and oftentimes every date will be planned by you too.

However, one of the signs God wants you to be with someone, is that he will send a man that actively pursues you. That man will call, will text and he will enjoy planning a date or two to make you happy.

Because one of the most obvious signs God wants you to be with someone is that the relationship will flourish if he is the one and will end if he is not the one.

9. You trust him

Another one of the signs God wants you to be with someone is trust.

However, trust needs to be earned. Like a bank account, both of you need to make little deposits to that trust bank account daily. And after a while when you feel comfortable, you can start increasing the amount.

The man God has for you will make you feel comfortable investing. You will trust him because of his words and actions as mentioned above.

His intentions for you will be clear and you will feel peace about the relationship.

The best way to test that is to observe his actions when he’s around you. Is he open and communicative or closed up and hard to read?

Does he have a problem with you being close when he’s on the phone or reading e-mails? Or does he ask you to pick up a call if he’s busy?

These habits might seem small, but if he’s overly secretive around you it’s an obvious sign that he’s hiding bigger things from you.

In a thriving relationship, your fears and doubts will vanish the more time you spend together. You will start to trust him, not just with the relationship but with your life, goals, and future.

10. He respects you

Too often we think respecting someone only refers to the way we speak to them. However, in relationships respect is part of the foundation you build on and can make or break it.

It’s the daily habits that you have to look out for in the beginning. One way to know if God has ordained the relationship is whether he respects you.

Does he respect your time and give you his uninterrupted attention when you are together? Or is he preoccupied with work and other things?

Another way to see if he respects you is in conversations. Does he repeatedly cut you off when you discuss something? Or does he value your opinion and appreciate your point of view?

Last but not least, is he loyal? Now this one is important!

Remember, that being in a relationship means the two of you are merging two completely different families, backgrounds, and experiences.

That means you will run into situations where one of you is wrongly perceived. And only if the two of you can stick up for each other, your relationship can survive.

And I know that even with all these signs God wants you to be with someone, it can sometimes be hard to know for sure.

That’s why it’s important to pay close attention because sometimes there are signs God is protecting you from a bad relationship.

5 Signs God is protecting you from a bad relationship

If you’ve been dating someone and noticed the following signs, then it’s safe to say that he’s not the one God has for you. Instead of forcing it, decide to see them as God’s protection and move on.

1. His words don’t match his actions

One of my favorite quotes is by Maya Angelou and I bet you know it:

‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time’

Simple but pivotal. If the guy you are dating keeps telling you how much he misses you but never makes time to meet, something is off.

Same for the man that repeatedly keeps showing interest in other women. While simultaneously assuring you that you’re the only one he wants.

As women, we are blessed with our “intuition”. The holy spirit working in us and giving us highly developed discernment. So trust your intuition and pray for revelation to make sure that you are not misled.

By doing so you will be able to tell whether his actions align with his words and how to know if God is leading you into a relationship.

2. He doesn’t know what he wants

The good old ‘what are we’ conversation. In your head, it takes place at least once a week, but in reality, it takes weeks until it actually happens.

You try to introduce the topic spontaneously and act super laid back doing so. That’s when he hits you with the ‘Let’s just see where this goes and take it slow’ attitude.

Usually, that’s when I run to the bathroom, ask the holy spirit to take over and remove all sharp objects around #keepingitreal. But on a more practical note that should be the moment when you take a mental note – Issa Red Flag!

We all know that the bible says:

‘He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord’ (Proverbs 18:22 NIV).

So if he found you, but doesn’t even know what he was looking for, how does he know if you are really a good thing for him?

It’s like wandering through a department store and buying a pair of expensive heels because they look good on the shelf. After 3 weeks in the closet, you realize that you should never have gotten them because they don’t fit any of the clothes (lifestyle) you have.

Because deep down you are a Nike and Sandals kinda girl.

A man who doesn’t clearly communicate what he wants from the beginning is stringing you along to see if it will change over time.

And that’s usually when most of us girls end up in a situationship. We hope that he will change his mind and commit. But how can you be sure, if he doesn’t even know what he wants?

The only way to find out is by identifying why he does not know what he wants. Is it because he is adamant about being single? Or is it because he has never met a woman he wanted to be with?

If you are dealing with the latter, then chances are that he will be open to going from casual to committed. And with a few very powerful steps that I explain in detail in my book, you can inspire him to go from “Situationship to Relationship” and get the love you desire.

Remember that scripture is clear on the fact that a man should be able to lead you. Meaning he needs to have a vision of where the relationship will go. Otherwise, he will end up wasting your time.

So, if he doesn’t have a plan for your relationship it’s a sign he’s not the one God has for you.

3. His attention drops

Ohh I hate when that happens.

The first 3 months he treats you like a princess. He takes you out to your favorite restaurants. Calls you at 8 AM just to say good morning and listens to your favorite celebrity stories.

Out of the blue everything changes. He doesn’t care about taking you out anymore and prefers getting McDonald’s drive-thru for every date.

He only calls you when you ask him to. And every time you mention a celebrity name he rolls his eyes.

Deep down you know that something is wrong, but you brush it off and tell yourself that it is normal.

While I do think that a relationship eventually leaves the honeymoon stage and becomes a constant part of your life, I want you to understand that certain things shouldn’t just happen to charm you the first 3 months.

And it is your job to determine what type of relationship you want. Do you want to be in a healthy relationship or are these signs of a toxic relationship.

God will allow a man to show you his real self so that the two of you can connect on an authentic level. If the real him is nothing like the person you first met, however, then this is your sign from God that he is not the one.

Just because you have been getting to know each other for a while and you would like to be in a relationship you shouldn’t force it. Even if it means that you might feel lonely.

Instead, thank God for ending things early so that you only cry for two weeks instead of two months. And allow God to lead you to the right one.

God knows you better than you do and will match you with the man that is best for you. That man won’t lose interest and treat you well forever.

4. You feel like you have to compromise

There is one thing I’ve learned in a decade of dating, it’s that you should never compromise on your dealbreakers.

Yes, I said NEVER compromise… On your dealbreakers!

You might think that this is a little harsh and selfish, but I assure you it is not.

A Dealbreaker is a factor or issue, that you cannot overlook and ultimately outweighs any other qualities the other person may have.

Meaning that a dealbreaker is a quality that will irritate you in the long run anyway. It might be the way he treats his family members. Or the way he takes care of his own health or something else that is important to you.

Don’t ignore these dealbreakers, because they may be a sign that he’s not the one that God has for you. Try to find peace and contentment besides the situation, by rejoicing in your current single season.

5. You prayed for God to show you if he’s not the one

Now, ladies, this is a big one, so listen clearly!

If you are praying to God and asking Him to show you whether the guy you are seeing is the right one for you and suddenly this same person starts acting up. He stops calling and texting or goes off the radio for days.

That is your sign! HE’S NOT THE ONE FOR YOU!

I know it hurts, especially if things were fine just a week ago. However, God is a God of action and protection.

This means he will end things if the man you’re pursuing isn’t your husband. This also means that this is not an invitation to blow up his phone and convince him to change. Instead, strive to maintain a balance between your actions and your faith in God.

If one or more of the above scenarios apply to your relationship and deep down you know that man is not God’s best for you. Then you may be on to something.

Trust your gut and pray for discernment. Ask God to show you if he is the one for you.

That way you will be able to tell early on if the relationship is ordained by God. Because when God wants you with someone this will happen…

When God sends you the man you are called to be with

One of my favorite sayings is that “when you know you know if you don’t it’s not it.”

I know it sounds confusing at first, but it makes perfect sense when you really dissect it.

You and I have made choices before about people, purchases, and even jobs. And every time we were able to discern the decision because we just knew.

I believe it’s the same when God sends you the man you are called to be with. You will have a very distinct knowing that he is the one for you, even if you can’t put it in words.

However, if you experience a lot of doubts and have to ask all your friends for their opinion it’s a sign that God is telling you to move on.

I believe that God himself leads us to the people that are supposed to be in our lives, including your future husband.

Signs God is leading you to the one

As a single woman in my 30’s it’s easy to get frustrated and sometimes exhausted from dating. You start to wonder how many frogs you will have to kiss until you find your prince.

And while I do believe that the way to finding the one is by putting in time and effort, I also know that there are ways you can be more effective.

Just like with every other area of your life, God is present in your love life. He will send you signs that will help you know whether you are on the right path or not. And some of the signs God is leading you to the one that I have witnessed include:

I hope that this article will help you understand the signs God wants you to be with someone or not. I know for me it took a while until I was able to discern correctly, but in the end I was successful.

And if you are already in a relationship, looking for guidance then it’s important you understand God’s will in a relationship.

How to know God’s will in a relationship

Once you identified the signs God wants you to be with someone it still doesn’t mean that the relationship will be successful. You need to know what his will is for the two of you too.

And the truth is, God sends people into our lives for one reason: serving him and building his kingdom on earth. So every relationship you find yourself in should serve that purpose.

Therefore a very simple way to know God’s will in a relationship is to analyze whether the relationship aligns with God’s purpose for your life.

I know that finding your purpose can be very intimidating. Because more often than not, we don’t know what our purpose is yet. However, once you do, you have to honestly ask yourself if your relationship aligns with it.

Is your boyfriend bringing you closer to what God has called you to do? Or is he pushing you away from it? You will know the answer to that by how much he supports and encourages you in your pursuit.

If you feel like you have to give up on your calling to be with him, then it means the relationship is not aligned with God’s purpose for you.

A lot of times you will even notice that God is leading you to the one by using your purpose.

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133 Comments on 10 Obvious Signs God Wants You To Be With Someone

Hey Esther, I’m glad to hear that. Be blessed

And what if 2 people don’t have the same religion?

The Bible calls us to not be unequally yoked with unbelievers in 2 Corinthians 6:14. Someone that is not Christian is an unbeliever.

Thanks for the above write up. I find them to be true

Thank you for this, I recently met someone so unexpectedly and everything that your listing mentions is everything I have found in him. I Pray he may be it but only God knows & our Faith is so strong towards what we have that we’ve come to the understanding that no matter what happens it’s Gods plan! So thank you for your Beautiful words you truly made me believe a little more! God bless.

God bless you! And kindly pray for me from Kenya

Am so blessed by this way….i pray my come true …

What if he’s an ex boyfriend but we have been like best friends forever? We both have gone through the same life situations and have kids. We know that we have something that attracts us but we don’t dare to commit. I have started to pray and intercede because I want God to give me clarity.

Right on on all points. I married the wrong one. And he doesn’t respect me at all. Can never finish a sentence. And he pushes me down physically. Among other things.He never protects me either. Just feeds me to the wolves every single time.

Pray for me, I believe God has brought Boaz into my life, but my growing up without a dad and his having an abusive first wife has strained ourcommunication,though at the core, we love God and desire to put Christ first and center, even if it means no marriage. Your list is helpful, but even under the best of circumstances, God sometimes doesn’t answer every desire regarding our dream spouse, in some cases, for the benefit of the couple growing together in the Lord. I see how immature I was and how God might be blessing me now by keeping me from marriage for years, yet I still have fear to marry. I realize now God might be placing a calling of marriage on my life and the nature of it is to stretch and grow us both. Anyway, keep us in prayer as we are older and lots of people are getting married older. Thanksfor a thought provoking message.

I agree with all of these, especially the action speak louder then words and pursuing you. Also that he puts an effort to make time to see you. This list makes it easier to see when a man is not right for you. My sister is starting to see a man that I don’t think is right for her. He would say that he would like to see her on a certain day and then on that certain day he would never message her, not even to say that something has come up and that he won’t be able to see her. This has happened a few times. One of my friends also saw them chatting and I just told her that I don’t want my sister to do something silly and the friend told me that she knows this guy well and my sister must not fall for him, because he is a player. Now I’ve warned my sister and our whole family has warned her. But we all know how we can give excuses for the person we are interested in and that words of warning can just fly overhead.
So I’ve asked God to deal with this, that he will keep this man away from my sister and show her a deeper intimacy with Jesus, that she will not be desperate for a relationship with a person that does not make an efford to see her. I might be wrong and this guy may turn out to be right for her, but going by what the list say I highly doubt that.

I am so glad that I found this. I have been so BLESSED by it. There is a guy at work who likes me, but I keep questioning if he is the one, but after reading this, I see he is not. He doesn’t even go to church anymore and he can’t give me an answer as to when he may want to go. He says IDK. No, we are just friends.

Thank You! And I cant wait to read the 50 questions!

Hey E, I’m sorry to hear that. Please consider seeing a marriage counselor. Blessings, Justine

I think you’re taking the right steps by praying about it. Seek him first in everything!

Hey Ab, I will absolutely keep you in my prayers. I pray that you receive God’s divine guidance to navigate through this situation.

Hey Nadia, I’m glad your sister has you. You are doing well by protecting her from a distance and entrusting it to the lord. Use prayer as your weapon and intercede for her. You might be able to change her heart or even his heart.

Hey Trish, I’m so glad you found this post and it served you. Yes, I think that is an easy sign that he is not aligned with God (yet).

I am so toched by this and I have listed some of the points in my book I will be going through at any given time I just thank God for the author of this and the additionals for the powerful words and I pray that may God open my eyes I see is goodness and I may know my partner better

I have found THE ONE!!
And yes he has ALL of these qualities! I thank God every day!!

I have a wonderful man come into my life he brought such love to me makes me feel like I can do anything he brought me closer to god I couldn’t ask for a better man but there is someone threatening him to stay away from me or talk to me we love each and we no who it is but he’s scared to call the authorities we both have faith that god will do what’s best for we haven’t talk in three days

Omg! I just came in contact with your blog and what an eye opener for me! These are facts that you stated and sadly for me,the man I thought(well my guts feeling doesn’t completely agree)was for me,I’d say God already ended the relationship because he’s clearly not the one! Thanks so much. God bless you more.

Hey Chioma, I’m glad the post confirmed what God has already done. I pray you find peace and grow from this experience. Blessings, Justine

An, one way you can know if this relationship is from God is if it lines up with God’s truth in scripture. You mentioned him having a first wife. If this first wife is still living, he has no business looking for another relationship (see Mark 10:2-12). And though your “Boaz” may need alot of grace and support (that you may be able to give him), keep in mind that you aren’t called to be his savior. And while being in this relationship could be a growing experience for you both, it may not be God’s will for you to entertain the idea of marriage. God may be placing a calling for marriage on your life, but you can feel confident that he would never ask or expect you to disobey/disregard his principles for marriage in the process.

I meet a guy from church not during church service, but it was a famiky and friends day at my church for memorial weekend. with that said he looked my way and so did I….idk if that was the right time to exchange numbers but I did after I left off the premises of the lords house. he texted me 1st and every since we been kicking texting like crazy being on the phone for hrs @ a time, but I wanna know is he the one GOD end to me!?

Hi Justine, it’s great meeting a fellow blogger who has similar views on relationships. Keep up the good work!

relax. You have known each other for a very short time. You can not determine whether someone is for you from a few texts. Enjoy getting to know each other while guarding your heart.

You either pull him or he pulls you.. But if you’re sincere in the Lord, you will never remove yourself from God.

Great blog post! A couple weeks ago I expressed interest in and started dating one of my best friends. He fits every single one of these traits. However, I feel as if I made a mistake in expressing feelings that I now know came from loneliness and boredom (it’s summertime and I am home from college). Plus, he’s the only guy friend I’ve spent most of my time with and Im afraid of giving that up to someone else. I know it’s selfish and wrong to continue on with this relationship, but how can I honestly tell him that I made a mistake when it’s only been a couple weeks. Is it possible my feelings could change and I could learn to develop romantic feelings for him?

Hey Nicole, thanks for sharing this. I commend you for honestly admitting that you made a decision out of loneliness. While I don’t think you should tell him that he was just your time killer for the summer. I would honestly let him know that you don’t believe it was the right decision because you don’t see him as a romantic partner but only as a friend. Hopefully, you will be able to stay friends after.

Love & Light
Justine

?? Exactly am humbled and I wil take time to observe his ways though we are at a distance but still God wil answer be blessed dear

Great post. I have been dating a guy from a completely different country (Africa) who is a Pastor. I am having to find out cultural differences and learning what is cultural and what is his character
He is so humble and has integrity and makes time when he can but it is very hard. I have got so much from this post
Thank you

Hi Justine – I loved your article. I’ve been dating my boyfriend for a year and a half and struggle with anxiety. Over the last two months, I have felt disconnected from him and have informed him of some things I’d like him to be doing, like going to church regularly. He has not taken that step, but I still feel very anxious and unsure about our relationship. Any tips you have? Thanks!

I should also mention that I find myself not wanting to see him and not wanting to reply to texts, but can’t decide if it’s from my anxiety and wanting to be alone or if the bigger issue is that I know he’s not right for me.

We have been together for six years now but sometimes I sense insercurit cos dere was we want our ways and within dat time dat was wen he had a child with someone else bug they are married and now we are back together again am scared but don’t want to trough away our six years of relationship.

Can i marry a person(man) who is younger(40 Days) than me?
what does bible say?

Woooww this is a great comment! Thanks for sharing!

Hi, great piece. Stumbled on this while looking for answers and now I am completely sure he is not for me. Thanks Justine, God continue to increase you.

Hi Haylee sounds to me like your body is telling you what you have been sending all along – that he is not the right man for you. You have to understand that our mind will protect us from anything that harms us, meaning that if you subconsciously fear that he is not good for you and are stressed about it, it will induce stress hormones that can look like anxiety. You are only hurting yourself by staying. I suggest you truly pray and fast about the relationship and find out what God is telling you to do.

Hi Clare, I don’t think there is a concrete answer to your problem and I can understand that it is a hard decision to make. However, always remember that we are first and foremost brothers and sisters in Christ. If you decide to stay in that relationship even though you are not attracted to him and later on decide to break it off. You will hurt him a lot and that is a horrible thing to do to your brother in Christ. So I suggest you go before God and ask him to show you ways to increase his attraction to you. If it doesn’t work, I don’t believe you should ‘convince’ to get married. Blessings, Justine

Christianity is not the only religion in the world. You can’t assume someone is a non believer because they’re not Christian. That’s a boxed in way to look at things and definitely not what you should be advising to others.

Hi Ashley, thanks for your input. A non-believer to Christians is someone that does not believe in Jesus Christ. And I don’t know any other Religion in the world that does.

I am experiencing the exact thing. This list is reassurance of the peace we feel along with how effortless our encounter has been since we met. We both what we want and we pray for God’s will. Whatever the answer is we both are content either way, because the spiritual connection was worth it.

how can I know God already told him am the one and I already know but not convinced he knows

hey there, i recently met a Godly man online, we have chatted for 8 months and met twice. we shared common interests such as loving God’s word and reading inspirational and spiritual blogs. I consider him Godly and mature. everything went okay except that we sometimes argue about doctrine 🙂 and as time goes by, as our friendship deepens, I felt confused about his intention the same way he is also confused about his feelings for me and then the rest is history, we are no longer communicating. this blog provided me a confirmation that he is not the one or God’s best for me. same as I am not God’s best for him. God is the best matchmaker i believe. I am now happy being single (nbsb at the age 28) and waiting for God’s best for me.

Hello there,
I’ve known this guy who has been asking me out for over 10 years I’ve never been attracted to him physically and I think I will never be but we’re friends. Due to some circumstances that I had recently he returned with his quest. I know something for a fact that he lies a lot to impress me and in the meantime he started to pen up about some intimate details about him. When I’m seeing some of the signs I’m telling myself could he be the one? and the same time though he claimed to be a Christian he talks about his dirty fantasies which somehow sully my mind and cause me to have some weird dreams… he has some of the qualities that you talked about but he lacks number 5 and that is the most important point for me and I have been specific to God about this point. please help I can’t really talk to the people in my life about it because they say my standards are too high. Thank you

just a question though, say you have such guy who is like this, he is 10yrs older than i’m and my closest friend, he loves me even and in every way but i’m not attracted to him like that, i like him as a friend but not in that way. i even tried dating him but ended up breaking up with him because i did not want to lead him and break his heart even harder when we go further into it.

The guy I talk to has all of this, but he said he’s not ready right now for a relationship and doesn’t know yet if God has him for me other than us just being friends. I feel God has us to be together for the long-term. I think he has his head in past hurt that may be stopping him. I truly love him as my friend, and pray God opens his heart to see what is right in front of him. I feel God sent us both to each other for restoration.

Hey Tasia, it sounds to me like you might be holding on to someone who is trying to get away. Even if the two of you are meant to be, it is best for you to stop pursuing this relationship until he comes around himself. Switch your focus to yourself and build up your confidence to attract a man that truly sees value in you. Because if he says he doesn’T want a relationship with you, chances are high that he really means it.

thanks for sharing this it really helpful…

Hi,Justine i have been dating my guy fr three years now but it got to a certain point everything changed..its like i made rules for on the time to call me and all that and i said hurtful words to him..and from No Where i meet this guy and we got along so well whiles i was dating…later my boyfriend got feed up with me and we broke up..which i couldn’t stand it and begged him to come back to me..but justine i’ve gotten into the other guy so much that he potrays all these signs…and recently too my boyfriend has changed ever since he went to school theres no communication again like how it used to be..i’ve lost interest in my boyfriend now and thinking of moving on this guy because i feel myself when am around him…but my boyfriend also says he won’t leave me alone and am confused and the other guy says he is afraid he might lose me…i dont know what to do….

Hi I loved these key points and somebody came into my life that fits all of this but the thing concerning me is that I feel like we both are weak in the department of waiting until marriage. He has explained his frustration towards me being too formal with him which of course most men may feel unsure if their feelings don’t appear reciprocated, but I’m scared that I won’t be able to control myself if I don’t keep a physical distance and then spoil what could have been a perfect Godly relationship.

I’ve dated before with intent to marry but that relationship was romantic way too soon and my partner turned out to be a liar, abusive, cheating, etc. and the marriage had to end before it completely destroyed me. Now I’m on track with God. I really don’t want to end up in the same bind again, but this new guy just seems so much better quality then 99% men these days.

Hi Christina, I completely understand your dilemma. It’s one that a lot of women find themselves in. But there is a difference between being ‘Too’ formal or distant and introducing boundaries. Boundaries you discuss with your boyfriend and agree upon together. If he can’t respect that boundarie than that’s a red flag.

Hey Bel, you need to make up your mind. Do you want to stay with your boyfriend or no? Don’t make the decision between the two men, decide if you would break up with your boyfriend even if the other guy wasn’t in the picture. Because jumping from one relationship to the other, might not even be the best thing to do here.

The guy I’m with does all this ^ what I read the 10 signs. He is loving, caring, loves God respects me, motivates me to keep praying, motivates me to keep on loving God. We meet at church! I’m a pastors child so every has eyes on me so our love we have is hard because we can be together without anyone speaking bad and it’s very complicated and personal but I just need prayer please?

This guy I’m getting to know definitely relates to God the same way I do, and talking to him makes me feel stronger in my faith! He makes me feel good about myself and is so supportive even when I show some insecurity. Especially then, really. He was giving a lot of cues that he really liked me and brought up getting a coffee or lunch, but I’m afraid I’ve been acting too cool/reserved and given him the impression that I’m not interested. It’s just because I’m shy. It seems like that has kept him from really “pursuing” me and setting a time and place. But I can’t be sure. Maybe he is really not the one. I’ve heard that if you feel insecure at all you shouldn’t date the guy. I like him, but I guess I am a little uncertain/nervous. I know you don’t know the whole situation, but even if you just read this and pray about it I know that would be a great help. Thanks!

Hey Brianna, I think you are confusing yourself at the moment. Take a deep breath and rest assured that if he is interested in you, shy or not, he will take you out. There are ways you can practice being a little more outgoing, but never assume that being shy is a bad thing. It’s just who you are. Blessings, Justine

My fiance and I met online 10 months ago. I initiated the relationship. Which bothered me but maybe is not a big deal. He let me know right away he was still married but just looking to meet or chat and wanted me to know he was still married. I am a christian and he claims to be as well. OUr relationship has had some rough spots. He would say its been amazing. I am very close to the Lord and value my relationship with God more than anything. My question is this. Now that I am engaged I have been waking up with unsettling anxiety. Some days I am excited to marry him but I feel like I don’t truly know him and wondering how I said yes when I see that I am starting to see a pattern in his life. He adores me. He takes me to church. he reads his devotions. He puts me first. He knows the bible well. But I see some patterns of inconsistancy with his lifestyle that really concern me. I was brushing it aside because he would tell me things like he has been married before that is why it is hard for him to not make out with me etc. I believe in sexual purity before marriage as it is a mark of being justified by your faith and truly desire to serve god. He does not get uncomfortable talking about god. But i am the one who comes to him when we “mess up” and tell him how awful i feel. He says he is convicted too… but I wonder why he doesnt come to me and apologize for leading us into sin? The last time bothered me so much I told him I couldnt handle it anymore and he said it wouldnt happen again. and so far it hasnt. How do i know if this man is really a christian? or maybe just struggling with sin in his life? I feel like an idiot for saying yes when I have these doubts. His good qualities are so good. but these qualities greatly cause me distress… we are both in our 30s and have kids from previous marriages. both of our marriages ended from our spouses walking out so we believe we can remarry. I do not struggle with lust or masturbation and he says he does not either… but I can tell he struggles with it. He is very consistant in his devotions and we talk about the lord… sometimes i feel like my passion for the lord is deeper…. He is absolutely head over heels in love with me… sometimes i feel pressure to get married from him( although I think he doesnt mean to) but he is so excited to marry me HELP! We just started biblical counseling as this is super important to me…

He didn’t say he didn’t want a relationship just not right now. We talk daily. We are friends. I live my life, it doesn’t center around him. We are enjoying what is presently manifesting whatever it is. Some people are hurt. I think we jump to conclusion in seeing the negative instead of manifesting the positive. Our words have power.

Hi Cheryl, thank you so much for sharing this with me. I do see a few red flags here, but actually with your behavior rather than his. It seems to me like you are overly concerned with his Christianity, which for one means you didn’t do your due diligence when you started dating and two that you are looking to marry a picture-perfect which does not exist. If you have so many doubts about marrying him, then you absolutely should pump the breaks. But if you are just worried and anxious for nothing, then it’s time to see a counselor/coach and make sure that your limiting beliefs are not sabotaging God’s blessing for your life. Love & Light Justine

I know this post is old but I wanted to say that you cannot be unequally yoked with someone who doesn’t believe in the same doctrine as you, it will cause an issue now I say cause an issue because the man is the head it is important to know that you will then have to convert to his religion and doctrine. Now this is something you will need to pray about and make sure that God is allowing you guys to be together it’s very important because I have seen situations where a woman tries to attend and practice the same beliefs as the husband but the wife didn’t feel like she fit in husband (baptist) and wife (apostolic) the Husband didn’t like the apostolic movement and wife felt like baptist isn’t radical enough for her so just an idea of what unequally yoked up with someone who isn’t in the same belief can cause the two of you to have problems later.

I met Lionel around 6 months ago while I was working in Guadeloupe. At this time, I wasn’t living my life very close to God, there were no suitable churches in my area, nor any other Christians, and I had stopped reading my bible regularly. Looking back I can see that I was quite lost as a Christian, and definitely wasn’t living out my faith. Lionel was a good friend of mine and we often hung out together in our larger friendship circle. One day I became aware he was interested in me (as more than a friend) and this led me to start to think about him on more than a friendship level also. At a party one night, we were both drunk and ended up kissing. It was a good moment, but in my head it was a mistake and something I intended to move on from, and not repeat. But during the following days he pursued me, wanted to spend time with me one-on-one, messaged me a lot etc. I didn’t know what was going on and knew in my heart it was doing the wrong thing to be stringing him along. One day I finally got the chance to explain to him that I was a practicing christian and didn’t want to sleep with anyone until marriage. He was intrigued by this, shocked also. It appeared he had never met another Christian in his life, and had certainly not taken an interest in it ever before. But he immediately said he still wanted to see me. I said ok, whatever, knowing that one day we would drift away from each other and that would be it. (I was leaving Guadeloupe about two weeks after that).

Three months down the line, we both met up in France, having stayed in contact the whole time we were apart. Now in more of a relationshippy area, I liked him a lot more. Heck, I loved him. He had taken a great interest in Christianity, started reading the Bible, praying and doing his own Bible studies. He had changed in other ways as well. He had stopped smoking, masturbating and was drinking less too.

Now we are in a long-distance relationship, have met each others families and friends. Lionel has been to my uni church and really enjoyed it. He prays everyday as I do also, and we are doing Bible studies over the phone whenever we can. At this point, our relationship has Godly characteristics and is constantly pointing me towards Jesus. Lionel is growing in his faith everyday, and has not stopped being excited about the Bible since the day he bought one and it arrived in the post.

But I can’t help wondering if this relationship is the one God intended for me. It certainly didn’t start in a Godly place. How can this be God’s plan for me, to be in a relationship with a non-Christian man? Is Lionel going to drift away from his faith in the future? Will he ever go back to his old ways? Is this going to cause problems for us? We have already argued quite a lot together about our compatibility. Granted, we have resolved each argument but I can’t help wondering if this was a sign from God telling me to get out while I still can. There’s also the fact Lionel lives in France and will be based in Guadeloupe until early January. He is 30, I am 21.

I don’t know, and I feel like I need some advice and guidance, even though i also know it is only me that can make the decision for my life. I have been asking and asking God whether this is right or not. And i just can’t figure it out. I need your help.

I encourage you to pray for guidance for this relationship. You stated that you are sleeping with him and you are not yet married. That is not glorying God. Attraction is important but it shouldn’t be the main focus. It sounds to me like you don’t have peace about this relationship. I advice you to not move forward and spend some time evaluating the relationship.

@Well I just recently experienced something similar in regards to the “dirty fantasies” where I met a “christian man” via an online game site. He pursued me, claimed, I am the women he is suppose to marry, etc. He prayed for me, we talked about scriptures,etc. However I began to notice a couple of red flags, he would talk about how hard it was to hold back on sexual temptation,then he brought up how he thinks about it all the time, and this also lead my mind astray. He then told me something very personal (that relates to fornication) about his past. Which was weird because we just started texting each other and he has never met me just seen a picture. Plus we spoke about purity and waiting til marriage, etc. At least I know I was serous about it. The last red flag was when I requested to transition the texting to a phone call or video chat to see and hear his actual face and voice. He ghosted and never replied back. It had only been a week, but it was really bothering me that someone who claimed to follow God spoke this way and never attempted to call or meet me. So when I ask,I had a feeling he wasn’t who he said he was. It’s sad that there are “christian men” out there who resort to trickery to attempt fulfill their carnal needs.
If your standards align with God, its definitely not to high and you shouldn’t believe what a person says, you should be believing what God says. Someone who is serious about their walk with God will not talk about or tempt your purity in any way. Just like the article says, he shouldn’t compromise your walk with God. You both should be on the same page with your desire to follow Christ. It sounds like he may not be the one for you. If he was you wouldn’t be confused or have aany doubts. Our God is not the author of confusion. 1Cor 14:33.

If you don’t like him, the answer is clear. Let him know with love and compassion, that you are not interested.

Sometimes no sign is a sign as well. You should focus on yourself and pray that God brings you the person that is best for you, even if it is not your ex.

THIS. IS. SO. TRUE. and its tough – please take it from me!

Thank you for sharing. I have been single since 2013 and I am a single mom. I had a old classmate of mine that reached out to me earlier last month, we lost contact with each other for 20 plus years just because of life. But he told me that he got saved back in 2015 and has he started his relationship with the Lord he was praying about a Christian woman for him, he said that God put me in his mind and said I was the one for him. I have been praying about him and I am not sure what the Lord has for me. I am very guarded and very careful when it comes to men. (Why I have been single for so long) he does check a lot of your points but I am scared and I am so use to being on my own that I have convinced myself I don’t need anyone. Really confused and prayers please and any advice will be appreciated. God Bless

Hi Yvette, I can totally understand why you are hesitant. But understand that fear is not from God, but faith is. Therefore, honestly ask yourself why you are confused and doubtful. If it is because you ‘fear’ the experiences of the past you should pray about that and ask him to lift those thoughts.

Thank you so much. This is so helpful. God bless you.

I find someone that as all this 10 qualities in him and am convinced physical in me he is the right person but something bothered me, anytime i prayed to lord to show me the right person, i always see a black guy and tall smiling at me with a open teeth and someone telling me, that my husband in my dream but the guy with these quality is a yellow guy and short and doesnt have open teeth am confused

Hi!
Please we should not get confused. That man isn’t a Christian at all. He’s one of the scammers out there who take advantage of ladies. Note that God sent people to us and equally satan does sen. But the evidence is clear. They won’t succeed this evil plans on God’s children.
Remain ever blessed in Jesus name

Hey, I met this guy a year ago and I’ve had a crush on him ever since, a few days ago he admitted to liking me for over a year and he said he had a feeling inside and something clicked inside, he is definitely Christian and so am I, when he told me this we automatically started planning our wedding and future. We’re both nearly 18. How do I know if he is “the one” we’re dating now and we get along so well and I’ve told him my biggest secret and he’s told me his, and he’s helped me to love myself. But I just want a second opinion, I really like him.

Hey Maddy, I’m happy you found someone you like so much. My suggestion is to take it slow. Enjoy the time you spend together and observe his words and actions. The best way to know if someone is ‘The One’ is by spending time with him and analyzing if he makes you feel at peace.

Can it still be gods will if the person I want to be with is with someone else at the moment…

The keyword here is ‘I want to be with’. Ask yourself honestly if it is your desire or God’s desire.

Amen girl. Loved the blog and I think I’ve finally met my future husband. Everything you said, he definitely does them all effortlessly and will say so to your face. When I look at him, I see me, us! God bless you!

You are right Esther!

Hi Izzy! I’m glad you are asking this question because it is so common! I think you mentioned a lot of red flags and I believe you already know what these mean. Understand that your intuition is spot on always! Meaning the ‘confusion’ you are experiencing is a tell-tale sign that something is off. I don’t think I need to give you any advice, because your body and mind are already ringing all the alarm signs. It is totally up to you to decide whether you want to finally do something about it, or stay in a situation that is making you anxious and paranoid. Love & Light Justine

Very true Tally..

Awesome blog Justine. Informative. Thanks a million

God warns us we should only date other Christians not because only Christians are good people or anything of that sort. There are many good reasons, and here are a few: One of my teachers in high school was Christian and her husband wasn’t. She often told me that it really hurt her that they don’t both believe the same things about life after death. It’s also very difficult for them raising their son and daughter because the parents have conflicting beliefs about what the kids should be taught. Being a devout Christian means God is a very big part of your life, so if your significant other doesn’t believe in God in the Christian way and you do, there will inevitably be some big conflicts in your life that can effect not only you, but your future family. If you aren’t both Christian, chances are you will have some major conflicts in values.

Hi darling I like your blog and it’s what I wanted to know. I meet this guy, actually I gave his friend my number because his friend is looking handsome then him, late on they exchange my contact so he called me. I didn’t like the guy but I could feel that his the one, I had to learn to love him and now I love him with all my heart. We click in everything even sharing the birthday but now the problem is he got a girlfriend of 4years and they look happy, all the time when I’m with him the girl will call and disturbing us after that I would feel okay. He gave me his phone to browse I felt like he’s showing off this girl but later he told me there’s nothing his hiding from me. Let me be patient, he knows what he wants and I’m a exactly what he want. Even me I could feel he’s Sent by God. We both Christians same church but now I don’t know either to be patient with him to end up the relationship his in or what. I feel like wasting my time. I told him that I don’t have to feel this pain in order to own him, what was meant to be mine will find me but seems like on his side easy comes easy goes so please advise me what to do. Oh he told me the reason he doesn’t see future with his partner is that she can’t have kids so that will affect him in life because he got 1 kid from another girl and I also have 2 kids from my ex boyfriend.

Hey Yanda, I have to tell you that I don’t think it is smart nor respectful to mingle in their relationship. You are right, what is for you is for you. So why wait for something that is not…yet. If he really means what he is saying, he will follow you once you set your boundaries and leave.

hi dear, I broke up with my ex a month ago, it’s a guy I dated for more than two years but all through the time we dated, there were so many misunderstandings as he isn’t genuinely born again as our beliefs contradict each other.. but last week i got a call from a guy who i know through my ex boyfriend, he is a friend but we not close like that, he had liked me since I was younger but I never said yes not until last week he made his desire known to me that he wants to marry me and he still likes me a lot that he feels in his spirit I am the one for him, he has almost all the qualities u mentioned here but I don’t seem to love him, though I like him but it isn’t deep and I noticed though he is spiritually sound but isn’t stable or consistent yet.. I have been praying but not gotten any conviction about him yet whether to accept him or not..
please I would love you to advice me and also pray for me regarding this.

Thanks for sharing, the man I am with now has all this quality but I don’t love him, what do I do

Hi I read this 10 things if this is your partner that God has for me and i do understand. I would like to know how can God show who is the man who will grow old with me. I been by myself for so long that sometimes i feel that God has forget me. I am not growing younger and I do God to provide me a good humble and simple who fear the Lord and that will be a strong person in this journey. How can you give me a suggestion or how can i ask. Thank you

Thank you for sharing, I blessed with reading this scripture!

I met someone in a christian site dating. We comunicated together through social network (facebook). He is a christian, what I appreciate of him is the desire for to pursue God. He has a desire for sharing gospel with other people. I like his zeal for Gospel. Because even I want to share my life with someone that love God and serve him seriosly.
He was showed with me very open, he showed me everything from his life. I have understand that he is serious about following Christ.
But now, we have 4 month that don’t talk together. Because he said me “that don’t have peace and waned to hear from God”.
I aprecciate very very much that he want to know God will. And I am praying for both.
Even I want to know if is the will of God or no. Beacuse we don’t want to do our desire but desire of God.
I like him, I like him heart and he expressed that like me.
The problem is that we live in different states, we speak different language (he speak Arabic and I speak albania, the problem is that I dont very well english and we dont speak together cause I dont speak him.
But we don’t have any answer from God for us both.
Sometimes, I wonder God: Why you don’t let two people connect who love You.
Sometimes I think maybe I am not the right person for him, because I see my sin, how I err every day and I think “maybe I can be obstacle for him and not a helper”
I don’t know, what I think. I don’t want to think anything.
I pray that we hear God from his word, I pray that God to run our path. I dont want our desires to be fulfilled but I want the will of God.
Often I want to give up, but again pray because I say God will answer us.
And this time we dont have write each other.
Can you give me an advice or suggestion concering situation?

I know this is extremely late, but thank you so much, Justine! I know now that he was not the one. Your advice was spot on and I feel much better about my shyness. Blessings, Brianna

Hi I’m Muslim and I believe in christ so does that make me a nonbeliever muslims are taught to love christ an to respect an honor him so I really don’t know in which part of the worl you live in but find the facts first before you speak

Hi, I just wany to say that the optimism in this blog is something i would love to tap from, that is if Justine will have me. My mum married the wrong man, yet I pray God’s mercy, grace and blessings will be with her. Amen

The Bible tells us what unbelievers are and they are people that are not living in obedience to God’s Word. Unbelievers are people that practice other religions and don’t trust Christ as their Savior. If a relationship is not drawing us closer to God, it is drawing us further. God knew that or He wouldn’t have commanded that. It wasn’t a suggestion. Thankfully, we have a Creator that tells us how we are to live. If only everyone took heed to His Word, this world would be a much better place.

I may only be fifteen, but I think I found the one. My boyfriend fits all of these. I was so insecure about my thighs, my body, but he has helped me out so much by loving me and respecting me. I thank you for this site.

Dear Feroza, as a Muslim you believe that Jesus is only a prophet and not the Son of God and that he was never resurrected. By Christian standards, this disqualifies Muslims and any others from being believers.

Because you do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that he died and was resecurrted for the forgiveness of our sins, you are an unbeliever. This is one of the many fundamental differences in our faiths. See, Matthew 7:21-23 NIV, John 14:6, John 3:16.

Hello Mery and God bless. Sometimes we read so much information and become so confused about relationships we feel like we are losing our minds. There are many successful relationships that last forever, sometimes even between a believer and non believer. The main thing is as long as your relationship doesn’t lessen your walk with God, don’t rattle your mind with overthinking. Remember, the separation rate between Christian and non Christian relationships is about the same so us Christians don’t exactly set a great example to the world when it comes to relationships yet we constantly preach about unGodly relationships. Have read about life long relationships where one is a believer and the other one isn’t but the relationship has in no way affected the Christians walk with God. It’s only when a relationship lessens your walk with God that it becomes unGodly. Even if we are with an unbeliever, if it doesn’t lessen your walk with God, pray daily and ask God and pray for their salvation, if your prayer is sincere, God will touch their hearts. There are testimonies from Christians who have been in a lasting relationship with a non believer, and sometimes yrs after the relationship starts, the non believer gives their life to Christ. It makes me sad and sometimes angry that people often walk away from someone they truly love because they’ve read about unGodly relationships instead of praying constantly for the salvation of the person. Sometimes people do not know Christ because they were raised to believe that there is no God and who knows, those parents were probably raised the same way. What we haven’t understood is this: There’s nothing wrong with your unsaved loved one (or any other unsaved person) except the devil. No human being who truly understood the salvation Jesus has offered to us would reject that salvation of his own free will. No one!. A relationship is unGodly if it lessens your walk with God. I recently lost a r/ship of 5 yrs, i’m a Christian, they were a non believer, i touched on God with them more than any other previous 2 long term relationships i was in including my first where i was married to a Christian woman, i just didn’t want to push it because they had a past of being physically and verbally abused by men. Sometimes a persons past scars can have a bearing on their beliefs, they just don’t understand about God. If we as Christians genuinely love the unbeliever we are with, pray to God daily with all your heart to reveal the truth to them about God, stay calm and never give up instead of walking away. To me, a r/ship is unGodly only if it lessens your walk with the Lord. God bless.

I have a question so what if I met someone online and we went from strangers to best friends and then to dating, but we still haven’t met and we have 8 months dating and we are happy together does that mean he may be the one? He has helped me love my personality the person I am but I still haven’t fully shown my face to him because I’m insecure I tell him how I feel and he says no matter what I will still love you when he says that I feel he is being serious, I just hope one day I have that confidence and I’m ready to meet him in person.

Thanks so much for your writeup. I’m in a long distant relationship. I have known my boyfriend for sometime now. We go too the same church and all. The first time he proposed, I rejected it cos I saw him as a brother, he didn’t come across as someone I’d like to be in a romantic relationship with.
Fast forward, I left to abroad to further my studies and he proposed again just this January. He carries all the godly personalities I’d want in a husband, he’s pursuing me like he should. He’s making plans of joining me at my place of study, but all efforts are proving futile.

I have also found someone here with the same personalities army boyfriend. I fear my boyfriend may not be able to join me here, also I will not want to hurt him cos he’s been so good to me. He’s the best. I can’t go back to my country now cos I’m still tied up with school and I intend on staying where I am. I discussed this with my boyfriend and he still insisted on pursuing me. Do you think I should take my time and study this new guy I have found lowkey? As in, he hasn’t proposed or anything but he’s a potential. Do you think I should talk about this again with my boyfriend?

We love spending long hours talking together, but recently he forced himself on me, i still love him but i hate what he did.

Dear tiffany,
If you are both already and currently married then he has broke off talking to you because he is doing the right thing for him and his family.

God takes adultery very seriously and it would not be right for you to have these deep feelings for him instead of for your husband. If this is the case then you’re feelings are self generated and not God generated and your up for allot of hurt by continuing this. I say this because I care for you and want to spare you more pain.

If I misunderstood you and you are both currenly unmarried then take a deep breath, keep praying but know that God will take care of him. If he loves you he will come back.

I pray that you continue in the lord and that he Guides you in knowing and obeying him deeper. God bless you and guide you.

You say if God puts a man in you’re life he will know if you are the the one for him by your personality, attitude and most likely your looks. So if you’re ugly you might as well give it up?

I’ve been with my boyfriend 4 years. Problem is, we were both not saved when we met and we did everything backwards and wrong. We moved in together too soon, and I think it caused a lot of anxiety in me because we basically got married without even talking about it. That made me so depressed and anxious, and he didn’t handle it well, which pushed us apart. I could never tell if it was the relationship causing me pain, or just weird unexplainable depression. I regret that we moved in together so soon. It got to the point where sometimes I thought about breaking up with him, but I was not able to support myself living alone, so we tried to work through it. He stood by me when I was at my worst. But I don’t know if it was out of love, or because he was too comfortable and lazy to start over with someone else. At a time he said he wasn’t in love with me anymore, but he loved me, and wanted to work through things. That broke my heart. But years have passed. And last year I came to Jesus and realized all my sins, and that our relationship started very unGodly. But he quickly followed and accepted Jesus, and wants to be saved too. I love him. But I don’t feel how I wish I felt about the man I’m going to spend the rest of my life with. Then again, I know even healthy Christian marriages probably don’t feel 100% all the time.

Now I have this man from my past, who reaches out once every year or two to see if I’m married yet. He’s loved me and courted me more than anyone ever has. I always saw him as a friend in the past, and we had a great connection. Over the years there’s a lot I’ve grown to really prefer and appreciate in him. He’s been certain for 10 years I’m the one for him, and he just can’t move on. He lives far away, but is willing to drop everything and make it work with me.

I know my boyfriend loves me, but I wish he loved me as much as this man from my past. Then again, is this man just pining for me? He’s very smart, accomplished, and a Christian. Although, his wife was the one who originally introduced us, before she left him. He tried to stop her from leaving, but once she left and took everything, he fell for me hard and never got over me, even 10 years later. He says the things I wish my bf would say. He has a sureness about me and adores me in ways I wish my bf did. It makes me question if my boyfriend really is right for me.

I want to honor God. I feel so clouded and unsure. My bf and I are finally starting to talk about wedding rings. But now I have this confusion and anxiety. How can I be certain he’s the right one? I pray about it, but don’t feel any clarity. Is our relationship doomed because we started without God? Or is it all working out perfectly, because we’re coming to God together?

Just maybe, if God had created normal women these days which then many of us good single men would be able to find the one. Women today are very different from the old days unfortunately.

I met a guy 10 years ago at church we started to know each other he wanted more but he wasnt my type i just saw him as abrother in the Lord,He tried to show me he really likes me back than to excent of helping me chase my dreams because he has big connections
But i didnt notice him i had met another men at the time and was too inlove with this men.
me an this men dated for 10 years without marraige i overlooked my values for him because of love.he promised to marry me but never did he always said he will hes making enough money.
I went through the most with this guy emotional abuse,i didnt feel good enough,cheating and all sorts of stuff

Sign that God Will Bring You Back Together in the Future

Gudday ma’am. I read all you said abt knwin ur GOD ordained mr right. I knw a young man 4 abt 3years bt i became emotionally attracted to hm by september,last year,2020. The guy is everything i prayed 4 except moneywise. GOD Promise 2 gv me a guy dat is very wealthy, i always beliv dat. If there is anytin my guy isnt,its rich. And its borders me alot. I knw my mum wont accept hm. I want 2 mari dis year, same as he. But no moni. My mum belivs dat if d guy am dating doesnt hav moni, he is a nobody. But i am myself around hmi dont pretend. I really luv hm nd i feel smtimes dat i break wit hm, i wil regret it. The only concern is dat hs just doing smal busines,stil plannin on expandin, he has gud plans but his nt rich,nd i want a rich guy. What do i do?

I have dated a young pastor for over 12 years but refuses to take me to his parents. His attitudes sometimes tells me he doesn’t love me,other times too it tells me he is financial unstable. His words and actions sometimes gives me hope,other times too no.Do you think he is the right man for me?

yeah thanks he loves me

Hi Justine I really love what u wrote, I have someone in my life now and he’s asking me to marry him. We were dating before around 2018 but due to something’s I did and said we stop now after three years he asked me to be his girlfriend and ask me to marry him. I don’t know wat to do and I need ur advice. He knows all have been through in my previous relationship and everything but still he wants to be with me, wat should I do and I don’t even know how to pray about it

Thanks Justine. I was so blessed by this article. The Lord will help us to trust His leading so we can marry for His glory and our blessings.

Hi! I know I’m very late to this article, but I’ve recently been struggling with something involving my relationship. My boyfriend is almost six years older than me, but we had an instant connection after meeting through a mutual friend. We started dating about two months after we met, and we’re coming up on our third month of being together. He checks off so many boxes for me – he is a Christian, kind, caring, funny, we like many of the same things, I like his family, he gets along well with mine. But he just isn’t my type physically. I don’t find myself very physically attracted to him. He has a bit of a stomach and I don’t see much effort on his part to lose weight, even though I’ve expressed that being healthy is important to me. I like most everything else about him, except for a few things that seem to be physical. Am I a terrible person for thinking this? I just have always wanted to date for marriage (this is my first relationship, I am 21), but I am so worried that I am rushing into something. He already told me that he loved me, and I answered that I did as well, but now I’m worrying that I rushed into things. I definitely have a lot of feelings I am trying to work through. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

So i take that is an article written by a female for females? But can this be reversed to be for males waiting upon God for their future wives?

Hi Justine!
I know that this article was published quite a while ago and that you may not get to answer me, but I really need some help with a situation… you see I’ve been dating a guy for about 5 months, but I’ve known him longer. He has been the sweetest guy I have ever met, and he actually respects/cares/loves me! He is always there to support me, and he is attractive both physically and Spiritually. We are both Christians, but his doctrine is a little different from what I believe. He is also very stubborn, and when I try to talk about my future career, he doesn’t support me in that.His parents also don’t seem to like me too well, even though I continue to be nice to them. He wanted to get married young, but I don’t. It seems like our goals don’t align? I also have this nagging feeling in my heart that there is someone better for me, and that the Lord will be able to use me in a greater way if I let Jesus guide a different person to me. I’ve been praying about staying or breaking up. But I don’t want to hurt him especially when he is such a great guy. I’m so confused on whether I should let him go or not because I don’t want to regret it later on in life? What do you think?

Thanks so much for this ma, I’ve been really blessed. I left my boyfriend who was caring and loving, but sees going to church as nothing serious after I listened to a messaged from a rekown pastor, then I met another person who seems to be on fire for God, thinking he is the right one for, but upon getting to know him better, I discover he lacks character, in fact aside from him being a Christian that goes to church, he matches nothing out of everything youve mentioned above, I thank God for saving me

I don’t usually do this but I’ll go out of my way here. As a therapist who works with couples. This is really bad. Life isn’t a movie. Please don’t take advice from someone with no experience. Just go see a counselor if you can’t figure it out. It doesn’t take more than a month to know if someone is marriage material. This is absolute trash advice.

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So Anya let’s talk about friends.

1) What do friends mean to you? — (Что друзья для тебя значат?) 0:27

I can’t imagine my life without my friends. They take up (занимать) a big part of my life. I need somebody who can tell me compliments, support me and tell me when I am wrong.

(2) What makes a friend a best friend? — (Что делает друга лучшим другом?)0:43

We all know that the best friend never lets you down (никогда не подводит) and helps in bad times. And also he is really happy for you when you succeed (преуспевать, добиваться успеха).

(3) What makes you a good friend? — (Что делает тебя хорошим другом?)0:59

I can listen to (слушать) and hear (слышать) my friend, can give some piece of advice (дать совет) and support her, when she needs it. I’m always in touch with her (поддерживаю с ней связь).

(4) Is it easy for you to make friends? — (Ты легко заводишь друзей?)1:13

I’m a very friendly person. I like new connections. Also I can learn something new and useful (полезное) from those people. This is what I like the most (люблю больше всего).

(5) Do you have any particularly close friends? — (У тебя есть особенно близкие друзья?)1:36

Yes I do. We studied together at university and we are still good friends. There is a very close friendship (дружба).

(6) Do you stay in touch with all of the friends you’ve made? — (Ты поддерживаешь связь со всеми друзьями?)1:50

I try but sometimes it’s impossible (невозможно), because people see the life differently (видеть жизнь по-разному).

(7) Which long-lost friend would you like to see again? — (Кого из давно потерянных друзей, ты бы хотела увидеть вновь?)2:03

I don’t have such friends. I see my friends two or three times a month and also we chat (переписываться, общаться) every day.

(8) Is there a difference in friendship between your male friends and female friends? — (Есть ли разница в дружбе между твоими друзьями и подругами?)2:21

I don’t have male friends at all (вовсе, совсем). But I think there’s a big difference because we don’t have many things in common (общее). On another hand (с другой стороны) I believe in friendship between colleagues (коллеги).

(9) Do you ever worry about losing your friends? — (Ты когда-нибудь переживаешь, что можешь потерять друзей?)3:03

Yes, I do. I don’t want to lose my friends. They are pretty much important to me.

1) Are friends sometimes more important than family? — (Друзья порой важнее семьи?)3:21

That’s a hard question. I think it’s different for everyone. In my opinion (по моему мнению), friends can’t be more important than family.

(2) Do you agree with the expression “a friend in need is a friend in deed”? — (Ты согласен с выражением “друг познается в беде”?)2:31

Yes I do. I think that we can’t have many real friends. We can have many fellows and mates (приятели и товарищи), that most likely (скорее всего) won’t help you when you are in trouble. A real friend is a friend in need of course.

(3) How similar are you to your friends? — (На сколько ты похож на друзей?)4:05

All my friends are pretty much different. Especially now, when we all are 30 years old and even older. But even now we stay in touch with each other.

(4) Do you think you have a special understanding with your friends? — (Ты считаешь, что у вас с друзьями особое понимание?)4:25

Absolutely. We can make jokes (шутить), which no one understands, but only my friends and me. So yes, we definitely have a special understanding with each other.

(5) At which stages of life is it easier to make friends? — (В какие периоды жизни легче всего заводить друзей?)4:44

In childhood of course. Kids are usually pretty easygoing (легкий характером). I think 12-15 years old is the best age for making friends.

(6) Are your childhood friends those you have strongest bonds with? — (С друзьями детства у тебя самые сильные связи?)5:02

Yes they are. As I said, the best friends are friends from childhood. So yes, my childhood friends are those I have the strongest bonds with.

(7) What’s the nicest thing you’ve ever done for your friends? — (Что самое приятное ты когда-либо делал для своих друзей?)5:38

I don’t know. I can’t remember anything in particular (в особенности). It’s better to ask them I think.

(8) How often do you fall out with your friends? — (Как часто ты ссоришься с друзьями?)5:50

Now I don’t fall out with my friends, because we see each other not so often. When we were young and spent a lot of time together, of course we had some different points of view (различные точки зрения). But I can’t say that we fell out a lot with each other. We were always getting along pretty well (хорошо ладили).

(9) If you could choose any friend in the world, who would it be? — (Если бы ты мог выбрать любого друга во всем мире, кто бы это был?)6:17

To be honest (если честно) I don’t know. That’s a very personal question. I can’t say it now.

(10) What is the most valuable thing you have to offer as a friend? — (Что самое ценное ты можешь предложить, как друг?) 6:30

I don’t think my friends need anything special from. They just know that I’m always ready to help, whatever they need. I think this is the most important thing. A friend in need is a friend in deed.

100 Heartfelt Best Friend Text Messages for Your Friend

Friends are an important part of life. If you’ve got someone who connects with you on more levels than one, who understands your unuttered thoughts, who is there when no one else is, then you’re blessed. Such people ought to be celebrated at every opportunity. You should hold them close and never let them go.

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Friends are an important part of life. If you’ve got someone who connects with you on more levels than one, who understands your unuttered thoughts, who is there when no one else is, then you’re blessed. Such people ought to be celebrated at every opportunity. You should hold them close and never let them go. Use any of the Heartfelt Best friend text messages in this collection to wow your friend.

Short Message for Best Friend Forever

If you weren’t in my life, I don’t know where I would have been. I value your friendship dear and I love you so much.

I love your frankness, your sense of humour. Phew! I love everything about you and won’t have you any other way. Keep being you darling.

This is just to check on you, to know how your day is going and to let you know you’re in my thoughts always.

You’re one of the people I want to see every day. Without you, my day is incomplete. That’s how important you are to me dear friend.

Friends like you are the milk of the earth. You make living worthwhile. I cherish you my dear friend.

You’re so amazing, and though sometimes I look for reasons to pick a quarrel with you, I never find any. You should get an award for being the most patient and awesome friend ever. I love you.

You think I don’t know how lucky I am to have you in my life? Forget it dear, no matter what I’ll never let you go. So the earlier we make up, the better for us.

You give quality meaning to friendship. I’d stick with you because I’m confident you’ll always have my back.

Hey! You know I’ve got you, right? No matter what, I’ll always be here for you.

Best friends, that’s what we are and that’s what we’ll always be. Whether rain or shine, I’ll be here dude, no matter what.

Distance means nothing to me. I love you just as if you were still here with me. Can’t wait to see you soon though.

I’m grateful for this one in a million friendship I share with you. Thanks for always being there.

I Love You Best Friend Text Messages

I like the fact that our friendship is never stale. We always pick up from where we left off as if there was never a break. I guess that’s because our hearts are always connected no matter where life takes us each. I love you dear friend.

Many rains, many shines, ups and downs, we’ve seen it all and we’re still here. Cheers to friendship.

Thank you for always being there to share my burdens. You make them so light, they’re almost negligible. Your friendship is worth more than words can say.

When you’re around, my mind is at peace. That’s to show you how much I have come to trust and rely on you.

Loving you is as easy as ABC. Who wouldn’t love a beautiful soul like you?

Most of the credit for the amazing friendship we share goes to you.

You have the ability to make me smile in my worst moments. You have the most beautiful heart ever.

Thank you for always reinforcing the positive in me. Thank you for always seeing only the good in me.

You’re the one I always turn to when I need reassurance, thanks for always being there.

You have never betrayed my trust. You’re the best friend, ever.

Trust you’re okay darling. Couldn’t get you off my mind and that’s why I’m texting to find out how you’re doing.

I carry you in my heart, everywhere I go. I love you dearly.

Have fun, sweets. Don’t let anyone bring you down. Life is too short for regrets. I love you lots.

Life is fun, with you! Xoxo.

You bring out the best in me. You’re so good for me, thank you.

I won’t stop loving you dear friend. I can’t, ever.

I would never betray your trust in me, dear friend. I will never let you down.

You are different from the pack. You are special!

Thank You Text for a Friend

Thank you for accepting me the way I am. Thank you for loving me despite my flaws.

Thank you for not giving up on me when every other person did. Thank you for believing in me. I’m promising not to ever let you down.

You bring with you an ambience of peace. I’m totally in love with you.

Our friendship goes way back and has weathered many storms. I won’t trade what we share for anything. I love you.

I can’t thank God enough for making our paths meet. You complete me just as I do you.

You mean so much to me. You’re my best friend.

Emotional Message for Best Friend

With you, I never feel pressured to be something or someone I’m not. Thank you for loving me just the way I am.

You’ve got faults, so have I and everyone. I love you just the way you are.

You are a rare treasure. I love you my dear.

There’s no one who I’d rather share my secrets with than you. With you my darkest secrets are safe. You’re the best friend ever.

I don’t want this bond of friendship to ever break. You’re a friend like no other.

You’re more family than friend. A friend that sticks closer than a brother.

Worry less, pray more, God’s got you. I love you dear friend.

Thank you so much for your constant support and help. Most especially your effort to extend our connection. You’re the best.

May this bond never break. May our friendship last forever.

You’re my destiny helper, my God-sent. Thank you for being a worthy friend.

You’re nothing short of an angel. Ever so true, ever so sure.

When you’re with me, I feel there’s no challenge I can’t take on. You inspire and motivate me.

I could never repay all your acts of kindness. But my heart will always remain grateful to you.

You’re everything I’m not. I admire the super human that you are.

Even though you’re not here with me, your thoughts fill my heart and mind. I miss you a lot.

I miss all our fun times together. I wish we could reenact the days of our childhood innocence.

We have come a long way together. I’m certain no one can put asunder our friendship.

Here am I, promising you that I’ll always be here for you, that I’ll love you no matter what.

No matter what life brings our way, I can never forget you. You are my best friend.

Loyal friends are not easy to come by. But you have never given me cause to doubt you friendship. Thanks for being true.

You are amazing dear friend and I’m always so proud of you.

The enemy’s plan against you will never prevail. I’m praying for you.

You can count on me, I’ll always be your friend. Standing by your side, no matter what.

Hope you had a good night. Here’s wishing you a super duper amazing day. God bless you.

I trust in your amazing capabilities. If there’s anyone who can deliver on that job, it is you. Go ahead and show them the stuff you’re made of.

No one can compete for your space in my heart. No one comes close to loving me the way you do. You are special.

Thank you for always giving the very best of yourself, in words and in deeds.

I’m sorry for making you feel bad. Please let’s forget the wrong done and be friends again.

You’re a great guy, don’t ever forget that buddy.

I consider you my best friend. No one else deserves that title. The cap fits you perfectly.

If you weren’t my best friend, you’d be my sister/brother. We go way beyond friends, we’re blood.

Loving you is so natural. You have become an important part of me.

Hey! Do I smell a bit of jealousy? Relax friend, no friendship comes close to what we share. There’s no basis for comparison, at all.

You’re my best friend, there’s no doubt about that.

There’s nothing I want changed about you. I love you just the way you are, best friend.

I’ve got your back always just as I know you’ve got mine. Best friends forever, that’s what we are.