p. xv If we know him only as the man, then he might as well be known, to borrow from Chesterton, as the world's "one quite sincere democrat." If we know him only as the saint, then he is a ghost who inhabits a spirit world beyond the reach of ordinary people. If Francis was anything, he was real. He was hopelessly anchored to real life.
p.xxv "Francis of Assisi is not a man who can be calmly observed, " says the great scholar Jacques Dalarun. " He is a man who must be confronted, with sympathy and commitment." Dalarun urges us: " Never give up on the quest for the historical Francis."
A man has as much knowledge as he executes-- Francis of Assisi
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