Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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.
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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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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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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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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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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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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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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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