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If I ever become a Saint—I will surely be one of “darkness.” I will continually be absent from Heaven—to light the light of those in darkness on earth— —Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“The adoration of Christ had been a part of the man's passionate nature for a long time past. But the imitation of Christ, as a sort of plan or ordered scheme of life, in that sense may be said to begin here.”
― St. Francis of Assisi
― St. Francis of Assisi
“He was, to the last agonies of asceticism, a Troubadour. He was a Lover. He was a lover of God and he was really and truly a lover of men; possibly a much rarer mystical vocation.”
― St. Francis of Assisi
― St. Francis of Assisi
“Up to this time I have called Pietro Bernadone father, but now I am the servant of God. Not only the money but everything that can be called his I will restore to my father, even the very clothes he has given me.”
― St. Francis of Assisi
― St. Francis of Assisi
“it needed ten times more courage to look after a leper than to fight for the crown of Sicily”
― St. Francis of Assisi
― St. Francis of Assisi
“But as St. Francis did not love humanity but men, so he did not love Christianity but Christ.”
― St. Francis of Assisi
― St. Francis of Assisi
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