QUOTATION: Fraternal Correction

If you detect some vice in your friend, correct him privately; if he does not listen, correct him publicly. For corrections are good, and often better than an unresponsive friendship. Should a friend think he is being wronged, correct him nonetheless. Even if his soul is wounded by the bitterness of correction, correct him nonetheless. Wounds from a friend are better than the fraudulent kisses of an enemy.

--St. Ambrose

QUOTATION: Friendship

A great help to advancement in spiritual life is to have a friend whom you will permit to inform you of your faults.

--St. Ignatius Loyola

QUOTATION: Friendship with Our Lord

As the disciples on Mount Thabor saw nothing but Jesus alone, so interior souls, on the Thabor of their hearts no longer see anything but Our Lord. They are two friends, who are never tired of each other. . .

--St. Jean Vianney, the Curé of Ars

QUOTATION: Friends

Do not make friends with any persons except those whom you can help, or those who can help you and animate you, by word and example, to love Jesus and live in His spirit.

--St. John Eudes, The Four Foundations of Sanctity

QUOTATION: Conversation with Jesus

You seek the company of friends who, with their conversation and affection, with their friendship, make the exile of this world more bearable for you. There is nothing wrong with that, although friends sometimes let you down.

But how is it you don't frequent daily with greater intensity the company, the conversation, of the great Friend, who never lets you down?

--Josemaria Escriva, The Way, 88

QUOTATION: Friendship with Christ

You seek the company of friends who, with their conversation and affection, with their friendship, make the exile of this world more bearable for you. There is nothing wrong with that, although friends sometimes let you down.

But how is it you don't frequent daily with greater intensity the company, the conversation, of the great Friend, who never lets you down?

--Josemaria Escriva, The Way, 88

QUOTATION: Friends

If I should have to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate…Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

-- St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

QUOTATION: Relying on People

Be careful not to depend or rely much upon the friendship and protection of men. For they cannot sustain us by themselves; and when the Lord sees us leaning upon them, He withdraws from us.

--St. Vincent de Paul

QUOTATION: Friendship

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

--St. Francis de Sales