10 Marks of Friendship for Trying Times

3. A friend really knows you. “I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15).

 

A true friend is someone with whom you can be transparent and authentic. In the words of C.S. Lewis, “Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.'”