Religious importance given to friendship

• "Friends always show their love. What are brothers for if not to share troubles?"- Proverbs 17:17

• "Some friendships do not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers." - Proverbs 18:24
  

• "Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shall drink it with pleasure." - Sirach 9:10
  

• "An honest answer is the sign of true friendship." - Proverbs 24:26
  

• "A friend means well, even when he hurts you. But when an enemy puts his hand round your shoulder - watch out!" - Proverbs 27:6
  

• "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." - Bible: Ecclesiastes
  

Religious importance given to friendship..

• "My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him."

• "The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them."

• "A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope."

• ""A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure."

• "Cherish your friend, keep faith in him"

• "Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time."

• " Faithful friends are beyond price: No amount can balance their worth

• "A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses."

• "A friend loveth at all times."

• "Does it make me a stranger that my best friend was born in a manger?"

• "Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance."

• "Friends in Christ are friends forever"

• "Friends are friends forever, if the Lord is the Lord of them and a friend will not say never, cause the welcome will not end Though it's hard to let you go In the Father's hands I know That a lifetime's not too long... to live as friends."