The Art of Being a Good Friend

These pages show you how to transform your superficial friendships into soul-nourishing relationships, bringing them from shallowness and frivolity to a deep communion of mind and heart - a communion that will become for you and for your friends a means of emotional and spiritual growth. Married couples will find here new ways to appreciate the gift God has given to them in their spouse. Most of all, readers will learn how to achieve friendship with God.

Hugh Black spent his life in the service of God's people, gaining fame as a pastor in Scotland and as a lecturer on homilectics in the United States. Although he was not a Catholic, the common touch and engaging insights of The Art of Being a Good Friend benefit catholics and non-catholics alike.

These pages show readers how to transform superficial friendships into soul-nourishing relationships, bringing them from shallowness and frivolity to a deep communion of mind and heart -- a communion that will become, for those who read this book and for their friends, a means for emotional and spiritual growth. Married couples will find here new ways to appreciate the gift God has given to them in their spouse. Best of all, readers will learn how to achieve friendship with God. As they enjoy this divine friendship and enrich their human friendships, they'll come to see how truly author Hugh Black speaks when he says that "no one would care to live without friends, even if he had all other good things".