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<blockquote>Saint Bonaventure places not the perfection of Christian virtue so much in the more heroic exercises of a religious state as in the performing well our ordinary actions.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Saint Bonaventure places not the perfection of Christian virtue so much in the more heroic exercises of a religious state as in the performing well our ordinary actions.</blockquote> | ||
Bonaventure says: “The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner.” A constant fidelity in small things is a “great and heroic virtue.”< | Bonaventure says: “The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner.” A constant fidelity in small things is a “great and heroic virtue.”<ref>Herbert Thurston and Donald Atwater, eds., ''Butler’s Lives of the Saints'', rev. (New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1962), 3:98.</ref> | ||
== Legacy == | == Legacy == | ||