Among other words used in ordinary conversation, he (Francis) could never hear "the love of God" without a kind of transformation within himself. For immediately upon hearing "the love of God," he would become exited, stirred, and inflamed, as though an inner chord of his heart had been plucked by the plectrum of the outward voice of the speaker.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, Second Life
CHAPTER CXLVIII : 196
Monday, June 16, 2008
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