It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIAbove all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.
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