Aelred Of Rievaulx Spiritual Friendship Quotes

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No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
Aelred of Rievaulx (Spiritual Friendship (Cistercian Fathers 5))
Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind." (p. 29)
Aelred of Rievaulx (Spiritual Friendship (Cistercian Fathers 5))
Moreover, one should so respect a friend's presence that he dare not perform anything shameful or speak any unbecoming word, since any fault so reflects on a friend that the friend not only blushes and grieves inwardly but also reproaches himself with what he sees or hears, as if he had committed the sin himself.
Aelred of Rievaulx (Spiritual Friendship (Cistercian Fathers 5))