I have a challenge for you...
If as you say we should be spending more than one full day a week in "quality" time with our friends, then when would you have time to sleep, or eat, to spend quality time with God or have alone time? What about family? Don't they deserve more quality time with you than your friends?
Also I know of many friendships where its been impossible to even spend one day a week in quality time together. Mainly for the reason that they live too far apart, in different states or even countries. My Mum's best friend lived in Scotland, she in Australia. Whenever one would travel to the other country it was as if they hadn't spent anytime apart from each other. They rarely phoned each other, the occational email or letter.
Same thing with my best friend. Basically the only time we saw each other was on Sabbaths and her and my families would spend most of the day together for the first year. Then we moved to the other side of the country. That was 10 years ago now. We would have periods up to 6/7 months where there would be absolutely no contact. Then we'd have periods where it was constant contact at least once everyday. Then have breaks again. We would see each other for perhaps part of a day or two once a year most of the time. Then I moved back over to the same side and we now meet up more often now. Yet we are still best friends and our friendship has grown. Yet according to what you have said, our friendship has been in serious trouble for the whole 10 years we have been friends.
as a disclaimer, I am not saying this ought to be what our relationship with God should be like. I'm just trying to show there is another side to this... but I do agree with you, we all ought to make more effort in our relationship with God.
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