Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.
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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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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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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 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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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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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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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 Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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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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