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 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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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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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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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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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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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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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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