Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIThe 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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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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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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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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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