Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIGrant 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.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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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 Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
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