Sat 31 Jul 2010
We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need to create impressions that won’t last on people we don’t care about.
~Tim Jackson, Prof. Of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey as quoted on the blog Wrestling with Angels…
Tags: money, Poverty, spend, sustainable development, tim jackson, university of surrey, world, wrestling with angelsSun 11 Jul 2010
This attitude of soul towards poverty is in truth the supreme test of the genuine Franciscan spirit whether in life or in art.
~Father Cuthbert, O.S.F.C., “St. Francis and Poverty” from Franciscan Essays
Tags: art, attitude, Cuthbert, Francis, life, O.S.F.C., Poverty, soul, spirit, st francis, supreme test, truthThu 8 Jul 2010
He would tell his sons that she was the way of perfection, the pledge and earnest of eternal riches. No one was so greedy of gold as he of poverty; no one more careful in guarding a treasure than he in guarding this pearl of the Gospel.
~Thomas of Celano, The Second Life of St. Francis of Assisi
Tags: francis of assisi, gold, Gospel, greed, life, perfection, pledge, Poverty, second life, St. Francis of Assisi (about him), Thomas of Celano, treasure, way, way of perfectionThu 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
Tags: agony, certainty, corpse, death, death agony, G.K. Chesterton, gaunt, gold, hair shirt, happy man, humanity, passion, pleasure, Poverty, pursuit of pleasure, saint francis, saint francis of assisi, unnatural, work, worldSun 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)
Tags: Christ, Different, different languages, different ways, holy spirit, humility, man, obedience, patience, Poverty, sin, st anthony, the Holy Spirit, virtue, virtues, way, witnessThu 27 May 2010
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve -
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for help, that I might do greater things -
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy -
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life -
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for -
But everything that I had hoped for.
Despite myself, my prayers were answered.
I am, among all men, most richly blessed.
~Prayer/poem written by an anonymous Confederate soldier during the Civil War via Michael Wade blog Execupundit
Tags: Blessed, civil war, Confederate, confederate soldier, everything, Execupundit, god, help, infirmity, life, Michael Wade, nothing, poem, Poverty, Prayer, soldier, strength, WarWed 24 Feb 2010
We cannot be content, no matter how high the general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people — whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth — is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed and insecure.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt, as quoted by Leo Hindery, Jr. in “America’s Dirty Little Secret: Who’s Really Poor in America?“
Tags: America, dirty little secret, franklin d roosevelt, leo hindery jr, Poor, Poverty, standard of livingSat 6 Feb 2010
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
~St. Francis of Assisi
Tags: distinctive sign, francis of assisi, glory, patrimony, Poverty, sun, treasureMon 1 Feb 2010
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
~St. Francis of Assisi, Admonition 27
Tags: admonition, anger, anxiety, avarice, charity, doubt, fear, greed, humility, meditation, patience, Peace, Poverty, st francis, wisdomTue 26 Jan 2010
It is when we attribute to ourselves and try to hold onto what is in reality God’s gift that we are of the flesh, appropriators who violate holy poverty.
~Murray Bodo, O.F.M. — The Way of St. Francis: The Challenge of Franciscan Spirituality for Everyone
Tags: flesh, franciscan spirituality, god, murray bodo, Poverty, st francis
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