Friendship And Fellowship
Story★★★Someone Once Said ... • I would rather be chained in a dungeon, wrist to wrist with a Christian, than to live forever with the wicked in the sunshine of happiness.-Charles Haddon Spurgeon3 • He who would be good must either have a faithful friend to instruct him or a watchful enemy to correct him.-Rev. William Secker4 • A man, sir, should keep his friendships in a state of constant repair.-Samuel Johnson 1 Boreham, The Other Side of the Hill, 242-243. 2 Alan Loy McGinnis, The Power of Optimism (San Francisco: Harper & Row Publishers, 1990), 128.
3 Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon’s Sermons, vol. 2 (Grand Rapids, Ml: Baker Book House, 1983), 90. ‘William Secker, The Norisuch Professor In His Meridian Splendor {Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1899), 154.
The point
A collection of quotes on true friendship, including Spurgeon's preference for solidarity with a struggling Christian over ease among the wicked, and Samuel Johnson's counsel to keep friendships in good repair.