If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIPraised 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.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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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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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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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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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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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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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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