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title: "3 Friendship Christ Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marion-d-hanks/people-need-recreation-need-to-be-achieving-need-to-contribute-but-if/)

[Marion D. Hanks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marion-d-hanks/)

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> [“The rock, when one came to think of it, was the utmost expression of human need; even mere feeling yearned for it;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/the-rock-when-one-came-to-think-of-it-was-the-utmost-expression-of/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd9/willa-cather-634_bible_the-rock-when-one-came-to-think-of-it-wa_1672046.jpg)

> [We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/we-however-have-a-different-goal-the-son-of-god-the-true-man-he-is/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/pope-benedict-xvi-414_adults_we-however-have-a-different-goal-the-son_2712544.jpg)

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