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“Francis, seest thou not that my house is in ruins? Go and restore it for me.”
― 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
“The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any practical method immoral.”
― St. Francis of Assisi
― St. Francis of Assisi
“One of the strange laws of the contemplative life," Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, "is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.”
― The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
― The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
“Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.”
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