Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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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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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 charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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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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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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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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