The next day he went to the archbishop and told him that he was resolved to go out into the world to preach the gospel of God’s unending mercy.
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We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Fortunately, however, birds don’t understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis’. Just imagine,” he went on, “preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn’t he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.
