Frases de Boaventura de Bagnoreggio

“O humilde não pode ser apanhado por nenhuma paixão, nem a ira pode molestá-lo, nem mesmo o desejo de glória.”

“Também morando no mundo, ele imitou assim a pureza do Anjos, se propondo como exemplo aos imitadores perfeitos de Cristo.”

“Vindo conseqüentemente ao conhecimento de muitos a notícia do simplicidade da doutrina e da vida autêntica deste empregado de Deus, alguns homens, atraídos pelo seu exemplo, começaram a sentir-se que lhe incentivava para embraçar a vida de penitência e, abandonando tudo, para juntar a ele na maneira vestir e de viver. Primeiramente entre estes era Bernardo, venerando do homem verdadeiramente.”

“O curioso cuida do que não deve ser cuidado, mas descuida do necessário.”

“Though a superior is rather to be loved, yet by the insolent he ought to be feared.”

“Christ’s death on the Cross should live in our thoughts and imagination, for frequent thought on the Passion of Christ keeps aflame and brings to intense heat the fires of earnest piety.”

“The virtue of gratitude is extremely commendable and pleasing in the sight of God, as its opposite is a detestable vice before him. Of which subject, thus speaks St. Bernard: Learn to be thankful for every grace received. Consider diligently the favors heaped upon you, that no gift of God be defrauded of the due return of gratitude and thanksgiving you ought to make, whether the gift be great, middling, or little.”

“But the soul cannot have any virtue if God is not loved with all the heart; for from that love flows the fulness of all grace, and without it no grace can flow into the soul, nor can it abide in it.”

“Let us not believe that it is enough to read without unction, to speculate without devotion, to investigate without wonder, to observe without joy, to act without godly zeal, to know without love, to understand without humility, to strive without divine grace, or to reflect as a mirror without divinely inspired wisdom.”