By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.
Francis of AssisiHold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.
Francis of AssisiIt is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Francis of AssisiThe greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.
Francis of Assisi