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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWe must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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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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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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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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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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I am the herald of the Great King.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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