Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIt is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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 must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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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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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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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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It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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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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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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I am the herald of the Great King.
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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