St. Francis of Assisi

by G.K. Chesterton

though that world was in one sense a world of little things, it was a world of little things concerned with great things.

when the interests of an age are mainly religious they must be universal.

The way to build a church is not to pay for it, certainly not with somebody else's money. The way to build a church is not to pay for it even with your own money. The way to build a church is to build it.

the praise of God stands on its strongest ground when it stands on nothing.