Aelred of Rievaulx Quotes

• No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

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  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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• Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

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  Love, God, Faith

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• Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

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  Friendship, Ties Of Love, Spirit

  Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) (1974). “Spiritual friendship”, Cistercian Pubns

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• The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.

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  Friendship, True Friend, Men

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• As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss.

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  Love You, Kissing, Feelings

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