Famous quotes and phrases of San Crispino da Viterbo, Capuchin friar whose real name was Pietro Fioretti, who lived between 1668 and 1750, made a saint in 1982 under the pontificate of John Paul II.
San Crispino phrases
- We love God wholeheartedly.
- We have everything to do for the love of God.
- Addressing a confrere, he said to him: "If you want to save your soul, you have to serve the following things: love everyone, say well of all and do good to all".
- In difficulties he repeated to himself: "So much is the good that I expect that every punishment will delight me"; or "when man does all that he knows and can do, he must throw himself into the sea of God's mercy".
- To a good parish priest, troubled by great spiritual anxieties, Fr. Crispino advised: "Make a great and virile soul ... go cheerfully (to perform duties often so delicate), not paying attention to the disturbance ... Get ... be cheerful in the Lord and have fun in brilliant things, but good and holy, when, however, he is attacked by melancholy ... If our life is a continuous war, it is a sign that we are destined by God's mercy to be great princes in paradise ".
- To a companion, who marveled at his cheerful appearance despite being marked by so much suffering, San Crispino said: "brother do not take pity, because you could not console me my God better, because my strongest, and persevarant question that I made him was to have a long life to suffer more, and now that I see myself fulfilled, don't I have to jubilate?
San Crispino quotes
- When man does everything he knows and can do, he must throw himself into the sea of God's mercy.
- So much is the good that I expect, that every pain is delighted me. God gave it to me, and God will keep it from me. Your will be done.
- Suffer, keep silent, and bream: these three words to keep them in mind, and then practice them, you must learn them on an empty stomach: because, if the mind will have some smoke sent to the brain by bile, you will immediately forget it.
"Don't you see, O brothers, how beautiful the world is?" How many beautiful things does God create for man? and how many delights has it given us to enjoy? Now if God has given so much, and has done so much, isn't it a great wonder that man suffers something for him, and then how much did Jesus Christ himself suffer on the cross for our sake? not much if we suffer some labor for his sake.
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- When San Crispino passed through the streets with saddlebags full of bread, the fruit of daily begging, he said: make way for charity, make way for the donkey of the Friars, so that he can carry the soma to his Convent.
- To those who asked him why he didn't cover his head to protect himself from the rain or the sun, he replied: "Don't you know that the donkey doesn't wear a hat? And that I am the donkey of the Capuchins? ". But sometimes he added seriously: “Do you know why I don't wear a covered head? Because I reflect that I am always in the presence of God ”.
