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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.

Francis of Assisi

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Enough Light Power Shadow Sun
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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God Himself Power Work
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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Blessing Born Father Glory Ourselves Sacrifice Sin Son Victim Willing
Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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Death Mortal Religious Sin
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Choice Love Myself Seek
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Care Poor Poverty World
It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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Appearance Face God Service
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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Desire God Human Servant
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Gift Grace Power
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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Carry Charity Deserve Generosity Lose Man Material Reward World
I am the herald of the Great King.
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Greatness Identity King
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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Compassionate Deal God Man
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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Color Flower Government Nature Praise
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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Beautiful Brother Fire God Light Play Praise Strong
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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Himself Man Obedience
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Evil Wicked Wisdom

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