Concerning Preachers Who Sell What They Do

Francis said that preachers who often sell what they do for the price of empty praise are to be pitied. The abnormal growth of such men he at times cured with such an antidote as this: "Why do you glory over men who have been converted when it was my simple brothers who converted them by their prayers?"

Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, Second Life
CHAPTER CXXIII