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 1 2 |       the same time an insult to God, the author of sanctity -
 2 2 |        providential help sent by God for the welfare of Christian
 3 5 |         if they do not return to God, look to the Catholic Church
 4 6 |    believed themselves called by God to reform the Church to
 5 10|   appeared, in the Providence of God, St. Francis of Assisi who,
 6 11|        to flee from the hands of God, he went to Puglia on a
 7 11|        felt himself commanded by God in unmistakable terms to
 8 13|        the plea "for the love of God." (Legenda Maior, Chap.
 9 20|        if the mercy shown him by God had been given to any other
10 20|      holier than he, and that to God alone must be attributed
11 20|    goodness and beauty, for from God only was it derived. For
12 22|          the greatest gift which God has bestowed on human nature,
13 23|        the doctors of the law of God and all the orders of clergy
14 27|    exhort them "to love and fear God and to do penance for their
15 28|      coal alive with the fire of God's love." (Legenda Maior,
16 28| Companions, No. 21) This love of God he poured out in love for
17 29|       the homage and love due to God. Therefore either imitate
18 31|        to him by a most merciful God.~
19 34|         of observing the laws of God but of attaining Christian
20 40|       cause than his own love of God, which moved him to love
21 40|        perceived the goodness of God. St. Francis, too, "saw
22 44|         fragrance so pleasing to God. Through their prayers,
23 47|                47. It seems that God in His goodness and mercy