"Friendship is blessed, not so much for the friends it makes for us, which has an element of gain, but the friend it makes of us, which has the element of giving”
--Henry Haskins

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• "One who multiplies joys, divides grief, and whose honesty is inviolable.”
• "One who understands our silence.”
• "A volume of sympathy bound in cloth.”
• "A watch which beats true for all time and never runs down.”

HERE'S the definition that won first prize

• "A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.”

LOYALTY

In the evening of my memory I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes: duty,honor, country.

--Douglas MacArthur

“There is one element
that is worth its weight in gold and that is loyalty"

--Phillip Amour

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (Mt. 6:24).

Ointment and perfume rejoice the
heart: so doth the sweetness of a
man’s friend by hearty counsel. Thine
own friend, and thy father’s friend,
forsake not; neither go into thy
brother’s house in the day of thy
calamity: for better is a neighbour that
is near than a brother who is far off
(Pro. 27:9-10).

An it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul
(1 Sam. 18:1)

STEADFASTNESS

“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity” (Pro. 17:17)

“Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep”
(Rm. 12:15).

GRACE

Good friendship needs a lot of
grace—after all, we’re human. Even on our best days we’re going to let one another down.

"Grace is everything for nothing to those who don’t deserve anything.”

“The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar"
(Pro. 19:22).

A poor man knows how to extend mercy. All men desire kindness. In order for me to be a friend, I must know what it means to be friendly (Pro. 18:24)

“He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of
his lips the king shall be his friend” (Pro. 22:11).

HONESTY

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal
less in the world.”

--Thomas Carlyle

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” When commenting on these words, one writer said that “True love, properly exercised, will not withhold timely reproof through fear of giving offence" (Pro. 27:6).

“Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart:
thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor,
and not suffer sin upon him" (Lev. 19:17)

“Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the
multitude of counselors there is safety”
(Pro. 11:14).

CHOOSING FRIENDS WISELY

“Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour” (Pro. 19:4).

“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his
ways, and get a snare to thy soul” (Pro. 22:24-25).

“He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle
not with him that flattereth with his lips” (Pro. 20:19).

WATCHFULNESS

"A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends" (Pro. 16:28).

"He that covereth a transgression seeketh love;
but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends" (Pro. 17:9).