Six Foundations of True Friendship

 

1. Disdain of Possessions - You cannot love worldly possessions more than you love your brother.  To be a true friend you must love your neighbor.  See Matthew 12:31.

An Injuring Silence

“But what sort of a thing is it that we sometimes think that we are patient because, when we are aroused, we disdain to respond but mock our irritated brothers by a bitter silence or by a derisory movement or gesture in such a way that we provoke them to anger more by our taciturn behavior than we would have been able to incite them by passionate abuse, in this respect considering ourselves utterly blameless before God, since we have voiced nothing that could brand or condemn us according to the judgment of