No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
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.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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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 injury let me sow pardon.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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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.
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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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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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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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It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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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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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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