27 Christian Friendship Quotes

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.Harry Emerson Fosdick

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 grace1 Peter 4:8-10

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.Albert Schweitzer

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good booksElizabeth Barrett Browning

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.John 15:13

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

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

Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God’s intimate friendship blessed my house, when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me, when my path was drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.Job 29:4-6

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 friendAugustine

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

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.D.L. Moody

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.Euripides

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.Proverbs 18:25

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship meansCharles Kingsley

God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.Ray Bradbury

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

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.John 15:15

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.Baltasar Gracian

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

Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?Proverbs 20:6

If you die before me, and you’re at those pearly gates, ask if you can bring a friend.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.Joseph Brodsky

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.Augustine

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.Proverbs 16:28

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