"Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in
the
selection of your friends.
If in the presence of certain persons
you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if
your friends or associates
encourage
base thoughts, then you had best leave them."
(Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 561)
Elder Marvin J. Ashton, Ensign January 1973
"Never make someone have to choose between your ways and the Lord's ways. And always make sure that you're making it easier to live God's commandments for those who are by your side and who are your friends."
"A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."
R. W. Emerson
"The Lord be between thee and me for ever." (1 Samuel 20:23)
"We should be bound together and act like David and Jonathan as
the
heart of one, and sooner let our arm be severed from our bodies than
injure
each other. What a mighty people we would be if we were in this
condition,
and we have got to go into it, however little feelings of friendship we
may have in exercise at the present time. I can just tell you
that
the day will come when we must become united in this way if we ever see
the presence of God. We shall have to learn to love our neighbors
as we love ourselves. We must
go into this, however far we are from it at the present time, yet
no matter, we must learn these principles and establish them in our
bosoms."
(Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, p.145-146, 1 March 1857, JD, 4:245.)
1. What was the last kind thing you did for someone?
2. What do you do when you hear someone saying unkind
things about another
person?
3. What have you done to help your friends be better
people?
Russian Proverb: Don't have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends.
Author unknown
"A true friend is one who not only is willing to love us the way we are, but is able to leave us better than he found us."
Elder Marvin J. Ashton, Ensign January 1973
"I urge you to
choose
companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you
better
in
their presence. And be such friends to one another."
Russell M. Nelson, BYU Dev., Jan. 7, 1990
"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."
“Choose good friends. Friends
help
to determine your future. You will tend to be like them and to be
found where they choose to go.
Remember,
the path we follow in this life leads to the path we follow in
the next.”
"Be the kind of friend who makes it easier for others to obey the commandments when they are with you."
Blaise Pascal
An Arabian proverb says,
“A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
"Many a friendship -- long, loyal and self-sacrificing -- rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word."
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
Charles Caleb Colton
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