St Alphonsus of Liguori on Ambition

Source: Benedict_Ven

St. Alphonsus of Liguori:

“Better would it be, perhaps, that a religious Order should be destroyed than that there should enter into it that accursed pest of ambition which, when it enters, disfigures the most exemplary Communities, and the most beautiful works of God.

But he ought to feel even consoled in spirit when he sees himself mocked and despised by his companions. I say consoled in spirit, for as to the flesh this will be impossible, nor need a subject be uneasy when he sees that he resents it; it is enough that the spirit embraces it, and that he rejoices at it in the superior part of the soul.”

Blessed Giles of Assisi (third companion of St. Francis):

“O Paris! O Paris! you are destroying the Order of Saint Francis!”