The essence of a perfect friendship is that each friend reveals himself utterly to the other, flings aside his reserves, and shows himself for what he truly is.
Robert Hugh Benson
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Friendship of Christ (1912), Chapter II, section II; Checked in the University of Notre Dame Archives transcription of the 1912 Longmans edition. Benson uses human friendship as an analogy for friendship with Christ; this is his own sentence, not an embedded biblical quotation. Public-domain tex
- The Friendship of Christ (1912), Chapter II, section II
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