🌹 Love of Christ

• “Love God, serve God; everything is in that.”
• “Love Him totally, who gave Himself totally for your love.”
• “Gaze upon Him, consider Him, contemplate Him, as you desire to imitate Him.”
• “Cling to His most sweet Mother, who bore such a Son as the heavens could not contain.”
• “Let us love God and adore Him, for He has loved us first.”

✝️ Trust and Faith

• “Do not be afraid, for you have a good shepherd.”
• “Blessed are you, O poverty, who give eternal riches to those who love and embrace you.”
• “Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road.”
• “If you suffer with Him, you shall reign with Him.”

🕊️ Looking to Christ

One of Clare’s most beautiful spiritual images is that of looking into the mirror of Christ:

• “Place your mind before the mirror of eternity!”
• “Gaze upon that mirror each day.”
• “Look upon Him who became despised for you, and follow Him, making yourself despicable in this world for Him.”
• “Contemplate Him, desire to imitate Him.”

🌿 Poverty and Simplicity

• “Blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!”
• “O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!”
• “Hold fast to poverty, and He will give you everything.”

❤️ Perseverance

• “Never lose sight of your beginning.”
• “Do not be disturbed by the difficulties of the way.”
• “What you hold, may you always hold; what you do, may you always do and never abandon.”

🌸 A particularly beautiful blessing

From Clare’s final blessing to her sisters:

“I bless you during my life and after my death.”

And one of her most cherished spiritual exhortations:

“Love God, serve God; everything is in that.”

A note on wording: Many quotations attributed to St. Clare circulate online in shortened or modernized forms. Her authentic writings include her Letters to Agnes of Prague, Rule, Testament, and Blessing, so wording can vary considerably between translations.