What is a Friend?

I get these little LDS Nuggets quotes sent to me everyday at one of my email addresses. I just read this quote and really liked it a lot so I thought I'd add it to the blog and share it with everyone.

"It takes courage to be a real friend...A friend is a person who will suggest and render the best for us regardless of the immediate consequences. Sir Winston Churchill became Great Britain's greatest friend in his country's darkest hour because he was courageous enough to call for "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" when some would have accepted him more readily as a friend had he advocated peaceful surrender. President Abraham Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends with them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

Marvin J. Ashton, "What is a Friend?"

That very last part from President Abraham Lincoln was my favorite! It's so true..........