I therefore command all my Brothers, those living now and those to come in the future, to venerate the Holy Mother of God, whom we always implore to be our Protectress, to praise her at all times, in all circumstances of life, with all the means in their power and with the greatest devotion and submission.
Francis of Assisi...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.
Francis of AssisiHere is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.
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