It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWhere there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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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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Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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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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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