St. Francis of Assisi - Six Addresses in Lent #223461

We miss much of what is most worth having in life if we do not set apart a portion of our time to the study of the lives of the best in all generations. There we get what we can hardly get from any other form of literature; we see men as they actually were in the face of the common human temptations, trials, sorrows, that exist from age to age; how they prayed and strug gled and suffered; how they dared to look forward and hope; and how, in spite of all, they, in a measure.