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He too has loved--loved God and loved man with a love of peculiar intensity and recklessness. It was love that had made him leap off his horse and kiss the foul and rotting hand of the leper; it was love that had made him abandon for ever the comforts and decencies of his father's house; it was love which had led him by way of poverty and humility and simplicity. Love had driven him on his long journeys in heat and cold, in hunger and thirst; love led him to face almost certain death at the hands of the Saracens; love took him up to the mountaintop to be branded as Christ's. His whole life had been nothing but an expression of love--love of God and love of man--to the end, and to the uttermost.
-John R. H. Moorman, St. Francis of Assisi
