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Christian Friendship Quotes

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Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. ~Proverbs 17:9

To flatter friends is to lay a trap for their feet. ~Proverbs 29:5

The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense. ~Proverbs 27:9

An open rebuke is better than hidden love! Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy. ~Proverbs 27:5-6

Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people, or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul. ~Proverbs 22:24–25

There are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother. ~Proverbs 18:24

A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. ~Proverbs 17:17

A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends. ~Proverbs 16:28

Christian friendship quotesTwo are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor. ~Ecclesiastes 4:9

“A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.” ~ Proverbs 27:19

“The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them.” ~ John 15:13

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? ~Matthew 5:43-46

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. ~Ecclesiastes 4:9–12

There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. ~John 15:13–15

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Proverbs

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We can complain because flowers have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have flowers ~ Chinese proverb

Fall down seven times, stand up eight – Japanese proverb

One barrel of wine can work more miracles than a church full of saints ~ Italian proverb

Necessity is the mother of invention ~ English proverb

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love – Turkish proverb

Dig the well before you are thirsty ~ Chinese proverb

Even great towers start at ground level ~ Chinese proverb

Motivational Work Quotes

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money. – Proverbs

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity. – John Lennon

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. – Vaclav Havel

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. – Sir William Osier

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. – Henry Ford

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach

When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. – Betty Bender

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. – Colleen C. Barrett

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. – John Bay

Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play. – Dr. Laurence Susser

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. – Alberta Flanders

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. – James Lane Allen

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Funny Proverbs and Sayings

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Patience will come to those who wait for it.

Man who lives in glass house shouldn’t run naked.

Wife who puts husband in doghouse soon will find him in cathouse.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom.

Virginity like bubble, one prick all gone.

If at first you don’t succeed, get new batteries.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey.

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

You never test the depth of a river with both feet.

An ideal mind is the best way to relax.

Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.

Two’s a company, three’s the Musketeers.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

It matters not what you do, as long as you are the best one doing it.

Never underestimate the power of termites.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains.

Man who sneezes without hanky takes matters into his own hands.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you must blow your own nose.

A penny saved is not much

Don’t bite the hand that looks dirty.

A miss is as good as a Mister.

Life Quotes

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Let me show you a great list of life quotes from famous people.

Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. – Lillian Dickson

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. – Omar Nelson Bradley

Life is short; Live it up. – Nikita Khrushchev

Let us endeavor to live, so that when we die, even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain

You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough. – Joe E. Lewis

Tomorrow life is too late; live today. – Martial

Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it. – David Guy Powers

Life is an adventure, dare it. – Mother Theresa

Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali

Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away. – Unknown

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. – Joan Baez

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. – Shirley MacLaine

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. – Charles Schulz

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history. – Proverbs

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. – Wendy Wasserstein

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. – Cary Grant

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. – Harold Ruopp

Wise Quotes about Life

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It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. – Albert Einstein

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. – John W. Gardner

A hopeless person feels difficulty in every chance but, a hopeful person feels a chance in every difficulty. – Unknown

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. – Pope John XXIII

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? – Coleman Cox

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. – Unknown

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. – Chinese proverb

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Unknown

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door. – Unknown

Words of Wisdom

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– “Nature and wisdom never are at strife.” – Plutarch

– “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

– “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James

– “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” – Solomon Ibn Gabriol

– “Years teach us more than books.” – Berthold Auerbach

– “The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.” – William Penn

– “The middle course is the best.” – Cleobulus

– “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” – Thomas Huxley

– “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb

– “Silence does not always mark wisdom.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

– “No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca

– “Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.” – John Milton

– “By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.” – Menander

– “The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt

– “Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson

– “The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” – Catherine the Great

– “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens

– “One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.” – Alexander Chase

– “How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!” – Homer

– “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young

– “The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.” – Confucius