Friar Stebin John Capuchin

“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.”
― G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

“But as St. Francis did not love humanity but men, so he did not love Christianity but Christ.”
― G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

“it needed ten times more courage to look after a leper than to fight for the crown of Sicily”
― G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

“her body is not taken from the dust of the earth but from the flesh of a human person; she is exalted by being called “the mother of life”; she is the one whose reproductive organs are “veiled”—and the veil not only symbolizes the sacredness of her task as life bearer, but also hints at the fact that a female womb would, one blessed day, be a tabernacle inhabited by the Holy one, the savior of the world, who would have a human mother but no earthly father.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine