I collected some really powerful Christian friendship quotes that provide valuable insights into cultivating meaningful connections. Let them inspire you to nurture the bonds that reflect the principles of faith!
10 Best Christian Friendship Quotes
1. “Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.” — Thomas Brooks
2. “God has a bigger vision for our friendships than we even can begin to understand.” — Angela A Sackett
3. “A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
4. “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” — Proverbs 27:9
5. “There is a brotherhood within the body of believers, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the common denominator. Friendship and fellowship are the legal tender among believers.” — J. Vernon McGee
6. “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” — John 15:13
7. “If, instead of a gem or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” — George Macdonald
8. “Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?” — C. S. Lewis
9. “You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.” — Timothy Keller
10. “A true friend loves at all times.” — Proverbs 17:17
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Inspiring Christian Quotes About Friendships
1. “He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.” — Abraham Kuyper
2. “Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.” — Proverbs 27:5-6
3. “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” — Zig Ziglar
4. “Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.” — Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
5. “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” — Proverbs 27:17
6. “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.” — 1 John 4:7 NIV
7. “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
8. “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.” — Job 6:14 NIV
9. “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” — 1 Peter 4:8-10
10. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” — Proverbs 18:24
12. “I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.” — Romans 1:11-12 NIV
13. “Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.” — Euripides
14. “[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.” — Tim Keller
15. “Four of the Ten Commandments deal with our relationship to God while the other six deal with our relationships with people. But all ten are about relationships.” — Rick Warren
16. “If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.” — Amy Carmichael
17. “A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” — William Penn
18. “He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.” — Jeremy Taylor
19. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” — C.S. Lewis
20. “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” — Thomas Aquinas
Christian Friend Quotes
1. “Friendship is the nearest thing we know to what religion is. God is love. And to make religion akin to Friendship is simply to give it the highest expression conceivable by man.” — Henry Drummond
2. “To please a friend is a welcome bonus; to help him is the great reward.” — Jack Hyles
3. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Jean de la Fontaine
4. “I am convinced, by the way, that friendships provide the most fertile soil for evangelism.” — John MacArthur
5. “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” — Henry Ward Beecher
6. “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” — Baltasar Gracian
7. “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” — Proverbs 17:17
8. “When the reality of Christ is introduced into a relationship of love and trust that has already been established, the effect is powerful. And it seems that invariably when someone becomes a true follower of Christ, that person’s first impulse is to want to find a friend and introduce that friend to Christ.” — John MacArthur
9. “If I take offense easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.” — Amy Carmichael
10. “The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.” — Oswald Chambers
11. “Many a friendship – long, loyal, and self-sacrificing – rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.” — Frederick W. Faber
12. “Next to hypocrisy in religion, there is nothing worse than hypocrisy in friendship.” — Joseph Hall
13. “Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.” — Tim Keller
14. “Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.” — Henry Ward Beecher
15. “Ultimate reality is a community of persons who know and love one another. That is what the universe, God, history, and life is all about. If you favor money, power, and accomplishment over human relationships, you will dash yourself on the rocks of reality.” — Tim Keller
16. “God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults.” — Thomas Fuller
17. “No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of his company.” — Jeremy Taylor
18. “The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.” — John Henry Newman
19. “f I do not give a friend “The benefit of the doubt,” but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.” — Amy Carmichael
20. “My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.” — Helen Keller
Motivational Christian Quotes On Friendship
1. “If you know people in your church or neighborhood that are facing adversity, I encourage you to offer a hand of friendship to them. That is what Jesus would do.” — Jonathan Falwell
2. “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:11
3. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” — Socrates
4. “We may not be able to prevent other people from being our enemies, but we can prevent ourselves from being enemies toward others.” — Warren Wiersbe
5. “Do not be misled: Bad company corrupts good character.” — 1 Corinthians 15:33
6. “Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.” — 1 John 4:11
7. “It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.” — Charles Kingsley
8. “A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.” — Charles Kingsley
9. “When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes, giving him twice as much as before! — Job 42:10
10. “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better to be alone than in bad company.” — George Washington
11. “Here’s the lesson: Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your earthly possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home.” — Luke 16:9
12. “The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.” — Proverbs 12:26
13. “The good man has his enemies. He would not be like his Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for the friendship of the world is enmity to God.” — Charles Spurgeon
14. “Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice.” — Proverbs 27:9
15. “One who forgives an affront fosters friendship, but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend.” — Proverbs 17:9
16. “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.” — Proverbs 27:6
17. “Christ, who said to the disciples, ‘You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,’ can truly say to every group of Christian friends, ‘You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.’” — C. S. Lewis
18. “Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.” — Proverbs 22:24-25
19. “The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen
20. “Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.” — Joni Eareckson Tada
Wrapping It Up
I gathered these Christian friendship quotes from all over the Internet to remind you how these connections can be a source of strength, support, and shared spiritual growth.
Hope they gave you valuable insights on building connections that mirror the principles of faith!
