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“We need to remember, therefore, that when friends tell us our faults, they are as Charles Spurgeon put it “performing on [our] behalf the most heroic act of pure charity.”13 Who wouldn’t want a friend like that?”
― Drew Hunter, Made for Friendship: The Relationship That Halves Our Sorrows and Doubles Our Joys

“The fact that he was ashamed when he was discovered praying was for Kant an argument against prayer. He failed to see that prayer by its very nature is a matter for the strictest privacy, and he failed to perceive the fundamental significance of shame for human existence.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics

“Two things are essential in this world—life, and friendship. Both must be prized highly, and not undervalued. They are nature’s gifts. We were created by God that we might live; but if we are not to live solitarily, we must have friendship. Augustine”
― Drew Hunter, Made for Friendship: The Relationship That Halves Our Sorrows and Doubles Our Joys

“There’s no question that false teaching poisons a church and dishonours God. But so too does ‘false living’ — whether it’s the false living of flagrant sin, or the false living of a quiet adherence to the middle-class values of the surrounding culture. This dishonours God in itself, but it also clouds the gospel for the watching world. If our church has orthodox teaching but unchanged lives, we communicate two contradictory messages: on the one hand, we say that following Jesus is the most important thing in the world; on the other, we show that following Jesus makes little or no difference.”
― Tim Adeney, Organizing Love in Church