St. Francis of Assisi

The simplest way to describe God’s poverty and humility is in terms of love. Love gives itself away—this is God’s poverty.

Maybe because Francis was not an intellectual he could perceive the mystery of God in its pristine beauty—the extraordinary divine in the ordinary human.

The love of the Father for the Son is the same divine love for all creation.

All truth is from God, and God’s truth is that we are to love God, and loving God will show us how to love our neighbor.

The practical conclusion of the first teaching of St. Francis is that if we listen and pray, God will show us what we are to do with our lives.

Everything is thereby holy and worthy of care, and reverence, and a song of God’s praise.