Forgiveness In Friendship

Table of Contents

• Forgiveness as a Necessity in Friendship
• Challenges and Betrayals in Friendship
• Letting Go and Moving On
• The Complexity of True Friendship
• Trust and Protection in Friendship
• Other

Forgiveness as a Necessity in Friendship

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it’s what makes being a best friend official.

Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends.

There is no friendship without forgiveness.

Without forgiveness, there is no friendship.

The best friendship is built on forgiveness.

There is no friendship, without forgiveness.

Friends hurt friends. They don’t mean to, but it happens. So friendship is made of forgiveness as much as it is love.

Oh, you will, some day, just as I’ll hurt you too. That makes part of thiswhole thing called being human, but to excel it and sincerely forgive the otherfaults… that is what makes a real friendship, what strengthens it.

Is there any friendship, without forgiveness?

To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.

Challenges and Betrayals in Friendship

Sometimes you must be brutal and unforgiving even to people you once considered friends

Its always hard to find out that a person you once considered a great friend has completely turned their back on you. Life is full of surprises, some good and some bad. From my experience, bumping into bad ones never gets easier, but you learn to expect it, learn from it, and move on. Thats the only thing we can do... is move on.

If one lied, or put you down, don't mourn don't grieve, for why do you care, you don't want to be friends with the mean.

The most hurtful thing I have ever heard come from a friend is ' i think its best we cut all ties' see for them it was just a friendship for me it was like having to cut out a piece of my heart and do with out it. But i would rather live without someone than to have them in my inner circle when they would rather rather not have anything to do with me

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!

I’ve had to think about the dark shadow side of friendship. This is the person who knows and loves you best, which means she knows all the ways to hurt and betray you.

Plenty of time for a close friendship to turn to hate. As only a good friendship could. The conduit to the heart was already created.

The hardest lesson I ever learned was that every bad thing you see a friend do to someone else they will some day do to you.

The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind.

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

Letting Go and Moving On

I've decided that I'm not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I'm going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself.

If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy - it might be time to release that friendship back to God and trust that it is not where you belong.

If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

Obviously, in a friendship there are always things, good and bad, that go on between people. You can't take away what's already happened. And if it's something that's really terrible, I think you have to forget about the friendship.

If you’re going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone’s not being a good friend to you and isn’t treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy – it might be time to release that friendship back to God and trust that it is not where you belong.

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

The Complexity of True Friendship

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

Difficult times revel true friends but also the unfaithful in your life. Be attentive always, but especially during tough times.

It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

There’s a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn’t your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Friendships were easy when life was going smoothly. What was hard was to be there for your friend when life got rough and the friendship was neither easy nor fun. The challenge was to forgive the friend when she failed.

Be slow to anger and quick to forgive, and you will have friends for as long as you live.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

Trust and Protection in Friendship

We're friends...And what that means is this: I won't let anyone hurt you. Not if I can stop it.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

But wasn’t a best friend also someone you could trust not to hurt you? I had hurt Vicki, yet here she was, opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

We’re friends... And what that means is this: I won’t let anyone hurt you. Not if I can stop it.

FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness.

I’m still friends with people who have done me wrong because I know they’re sorry. Doesn’t mean I have to trust them as much as I used to.

When my friends have been heartbroken, I give them a shoulder to cry on and some brutal advice.

Other

Sometimes we meet people who have been so beaten and betrayed in life, that they reach a point where they do not allow themselves to trust, nor are they able to identify a true friendship when they have it in front of them. You simply have to let them be and not feel alluded to.

Friends who hurt deeply but connected in the same way I had.

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Bad friends are those who make you cry.Good friends are those who understand why you're crying.Best friends are those who do everything to stop you from crying.

Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.

Be quick to say, "Sorry," be quick to forgive, and you'll always have friends, as long as you live.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

Friends never hurt or inflict pain on each other.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

Friends are God’s apology for relations.

Be quick to say, “Sorry,” be quick to forgive, and you’ll always have friends, as long as you live.

A real friend isn’t capable of feeling sorry for you.

Don’t tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

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