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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWhile you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
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We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake.
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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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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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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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man’s conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
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