Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-February 4

BROTHER GILES, of the Order of St Francis, once said to St Bonaventure: "Happy are you, who are so learned, and who, by your learn­ing, can become more holy than I can, who am a poor ignorant man."

"Listen," replied the Saint: "If an old woman knows how to love God better than I do, she is more learned and holy than I am."
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From Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day
Compiled by Rev. C. McNeiry, C.SS.R.
Imprimatur: Joseph Hull, C.SS.R., Prov. Angl. Sup.
Nihil Obstat: Innocentlus Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor Deptutatus.
Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii, Die 9a Junii, 1927.
First published 1927