One day St. Francis reproved one of his companions who looked sad and downcast: "Why do you display the sadness and sorrow that you feel for your sins that way? It is a matter between you and God. Pray to Him that in His goodness He give you the joy of salvation. In my presence and in the presence of others, try to be always joyful, for it is not becoming that a servant of God appear before the brothers or other men and women with a sad and gloomy face."
Saint Francis of Assisi
Legend of Perugia - 97
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