Tue 29 Jun 2010
It pleases me that you should read sacred theology to the brothers so long as on account of this study they do not extinguish the spirit of holy prayer as is ordained in the Rule.
~St. Francis of Assisi, via AlmostCatholic
Archive for June, 2010
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Thu 24 Jun 2010
He plunged after poverty as men have dug madly for gold. And it is precisely the positive and passionate quality of this part of his personality that is a challenge to the modern mind in the whole problem of the pursuit of pleasure. There undeniably is the historical fact; and there attached to it is another moral fact almost as undeniable. It is certain that he held on this heroic or unnatural course from the moment when he went forth in his hair-shirt into the winter woods to the moment when he desired even in his death agony to lie bare upon the bare ground, to prove that he had and that he was nothing. And we can say, with almost as deep a certainty, that the stars which passed above that gaunt and wasted corpse stark upon the rocky floor had for once, in all their shining cycles round the world of labouring humanity, looked down upon a happy man.
~G.K. Chesterton, Saint Francis of Assisi
Sun 13 Jun 2010
The man who is filled with the Holy Spirit speaks in different languages. These different languages are different ways of witnessing to Christ, such as humility, poverty, patience, and obedience; we speak in those languages when we reveal in ourselves these virtues to others.
~St. Anthony (via Beauty for Ashes)
Fri 11 Jun 2010
We’re terrified of not having the answers, and sometimes assert an incorrect answer rather than make peace with the fact that we don’t know.
~Kathryn Schulz (via Ad Dominum)
Thu 10 Jun 2010
Know then, that God no sooner finds us resolved to attain solid virtue than He sends us trials of the severest kind. Convinced of His immense love for us and His fatherly solicitude for our spiritual advancement, we ought with gratitude to drink to the dregs of the chalice that He is pleased to offer us, confident that its beneficial character will be in proportion to its bitterness.
~Lorenzo Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat
Wed 9 Jun 2010
Never was any man so little afraid of his promises. His life was one riot of rash vows; of rash vows that turned out right.
~G.K. Chesterton, Saint Francis of Assisi
Sun 6 Jun 2010
Many thousand things that I now partly comprehend I should have thought utterly incomprehensible, many things I now hold sacred I should have scouted as utterly superstitious, many things that seem to me lucid and enlightened now they are seen from the inside I should honestly have called dark and barbarous seen from the outside, when long ago in those days of boyhood my fancy first caught fire with the glory of Francis of Assisi.
~G.K. Chesterton, Saint Francis of Assisi
Wed 2 Jun 2010
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
~C. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
Tue 1 Jun 2010
And so we must all keep close watch over ourselves or we will be lost and turn our minds and hearts from God, because we think there is something worth having or doing, or that we will gain some advantage.
~St. Francis of Assisi, Rule of 1221
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