21 quotes from saints about friendship to dedicate to a great friendship

Friendship brings out the best in a person through forgetting oneself.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Any true friend wants his friend to: 1) exist and live; 2) all goods; 3) do him good; 4) delight in their coexistence; and 5) to finally share with him your joys and sorrows, living with him of one heart.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Friendship lessens pain and sadness.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

We have to go looking for people, because they may be hungry for bread or friendship.

Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta

The words of friendship and comfort may be short and succinct, but their echo is endless.

Saint Teresa of Calcutta

The friendship that could end was never real.

Saint Jerome

In the company of friends, we find strength to reach our sublime ideal.

Saint Maximilian Kolbe

Friendship is a person’s truest fulfillment.

Santa Teresa of Avila

In the world, it is necessary that those who dedicate themselves to the practice of virtue unite in holy friendship, to encourage one another and preserve each other in these holy exercises.

San Francisco de Sales

It does us so much good, when we suffer, to have friendly hearts, whose echo responds to our pain.

Saint Therese of the Child Jesus

Love all men with a great love of Christian charity, but make friendship only with those people whose association can be beneficial to you; and the more perfect these relations are, the more perfect will be your friendship.

San Francisco de Sales

Friendship consists of a full commitment of the will towards another person, with a view to his good.

Saint John Paul II

Friendship whose source is God is never exhausted.

Santa Catarina de Siena

Said very well who defined the friend as half of his own soul. I actually had the feeling that our souls were one in two bodies.

Saint Augustine

What indulges us is not always our friend, nor what punishes us our enemy. The wounds caused by a friend are better than the false kisses of an enemy. It is better to love harshly than to deceive softly.

Saint Augustine

Friendship is so true and so vital, that nothing holier and more profitable could be desired in the world.

Saint Augustine

Loving your neighbor and taking care of him, you go your way. Help, therefore, the one you have by your side as you walk in this world, and you will reach the one with whom you wish to remain forever.

Saint Augustine

Friendship is a person’s truest fulfillment.

Santa Teresa D’Ávila

Friendship with God and friendship with others are the same thing, we cannot separate one from the other.

Santa Teresa of Avila

Whoever with words, conversations and actions gives scandal, is not a friend, but a murderer of souls.

Saint John Bosco

A tree is known by its fruit; a man, for his deeds. An act of kindness is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who sows kindness reaps love.

Saint Basil