Aelred Of Rievaulx Quotes & Sayings

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 ... — Aelred Of Rievaulx

The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is. — Aelred Of Rievaulx

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

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one. — Aelred Of Rievaulx

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. — Aelred Of Rievaulx

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