And you can have the wisdom to make of yourself a better person and be an example to others. Saint Francis was an ascetic and denied the body in order to deny the self. We all love Saint Francis but he needed to love himself more. Late in life as he grew sicker, he would lament this ascetic nature of his and wished he had taken better care of brother body. And this is the definition of faith.
Man is spirit.
Spirit is the self. The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self. However, a self, every instant it exists, is in process of becoming.