Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Francis of Assisi

For it is in giving that we receive.
Francis of Assisi

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.
Francis of Assisi

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through … [More]