Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Seeking Praise

Those who want to be praised rather as rhetoricians than as preachers, speaking as they do with elegance rather than with sincerity, Francis did not greatly love. These, he said, divide wickedly who spend All their time at preaching and none at devotion.

Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, Second Life
CHAPTER CXXIII - 164

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