Quotations

Blessed Giles of Assisi: “The more a man feels full of vices, the more he needs to speak of virtue; by often speaking of virtue, he returns to it more easily and embraces it more readily.”

Blessed Giles of Assisi: “I have enough of the seashore to wash my feet, my hands, and my whole body; I consider as foolish the one who torments himself trying to know its depths. Let me have knowledge enough to order my life well; I do not seek to know what is above me.”

Blessed Giles of Assisi: “You must ask God not to give you much good in this world, to send you hard trials, and not to console you too much amid your sorrows, so that your reward may be greater.”

Blessed Giles of Assisi: “A man will know that he loves God perfectly if he shows great eagerness to turn away from vice and to grow day by day in good works.”