The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life
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The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life
Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. . . . And why do you worry about clothes? See how the
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. —LAO-TZU
John Michael Talbot • The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life
Voluntarily submitting our lives to an ongoing pruning process removes our irregularities, trims our unproductive growth, and prepares us for a future of fruitfulness and productivity. In the next few pages,
John Michael Talbot • The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life
Like the branches of an unpruned tree, our attachment to possessions and wealth often chokes our lives, enslaves our souls, and hinders both human community and union with God. Francis prescribed simplicity as an antidote to our often unquenchable yearning for more and ever more.
John Michael Talbot • The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life
Joy is an essential ingredient to surviving and thriving in a world full of darkness and bad news.
John Michael Talbot • The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life
E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful