St. Bonaventure took Francis' intuitive genius and spelled it out into an entire philosophy.
God is "within all things but not enclosed; outside all things, but not excluded; above all things, but not aloof; below all things, but not debased."Bonaventure was the first to speak of God as one "whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
Therefore the origin, magnitude, multitude, beauty, fullness, activity and order of all created things are the very "footprints" and "fingerprints" (vestigia) of God. Now that is quite a lovely and a very safe universe to live in. Welcome home!
--Richard Rohr, Hope Against Darkness
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