60 Christian Friendship Quotes to Strengthen Bonds

Good friendships are good for us, according to science. Most of the time, to cultivate new friendships you have to make a choice to be a lifelong friend. These Christian friendship quotes will help you learn what qualities lead to deeper friendships.

Christian friendship quotes remind of the beauty and power of Christ-centered relationships.

Genuine Christian friendships connect us to God and foster spiritual growth. We learn to depend on God’s blessings and grace through our relationships, whether we are spending time with friends or fellowshipping at church.

Christian friendship quotes are perfect for anyone looking to find strength in difficult times or encouraging words.

We’ve selected some of our favourite inspirational quotes. We hope that they will be a blessing for you.

Bible Quotes On Being A Good Friend

“Do to others as you would have them do to you.” – Luke 6:31

“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” – Colossians 3:12-14

“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” – Thessalonians 5:11

“Do not be misled: ‘Bad company corrupts good character’.” – Corinthians 15:33

“Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” – Colossians 3:13

“Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.” – James 4:11

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.” – John 15:12-15

“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9

“Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.” – Job 6:14

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.” – Philippians 2:3

“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

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” – John 15:13

“If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.” – Ecclesiastes 4:10

“After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.” – Job 42:10

“A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.” – Proverbs 16:28

“Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.” – Proverbs 17:9

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.” – Proverbs 27:6

“When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.” – Job 2:11

“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

“There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.” – Thomas Fuller

“If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.” – Amy Carmichael

“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

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard

“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” Proverbs 27:9b [MSG]

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S Lewis

“If your friend isn’t leading you to Christ but away from Him, has nothing to do with that person.” – Samuel Zulu

“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9

Bible Quotes On The Value Of Friendship

“Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.” – Proverbs 19:20

“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” – Proverbs 17:17

“One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” – Proverbs 18:24

“Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice.” – Proverbs 27:9

“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.” – Psalms 133:1

“Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

“Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” – Proverbs 27:17

“When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes, giving him twice as much as before!” – Job 42:10

“Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.” – Lysa Terkeurst

“If God is your partner, make your plans BIG.” – D.L. Moody

“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.” – Romans 12:10

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” – Peter 4:8-10

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.” – Proverbs 17:17

“I am convinced, by the way, that friendships provide the most fertile soil for evangelism. 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

“Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends.” – C. S. Lewis

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” – George Washington

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington

“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” – Thomas A. Edison

“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

“The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.” – William Barclay

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To please a friend is a welcome bonus; to help him is the great reward.” – Jack Hyles

“Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.” – Thomas Brooks

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Jean de la Fontaine

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle

“We’re to love people and use things, not love things and use people.” – Adrian Rogers

“He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.” – Abraham Kuyper

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” – James 15:13 NIV

“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

“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend.” – Augustine

Conclusion

It’s important that you strive to develop lifelong relationships, whether you have a number of Christian confidants. We can share each other’s troubles and weather the storm.

You may be reading this article because you’re searching for a Christian friend. Join the church, use your God-given gifts to volunteer, and listen to other people. You might find someone who is more loyal than a sibling.

Do not be discouraged my friend. God has a plan.