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 ASSISINo 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 ASSISILord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIFor it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIHoly charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIf God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIt is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIt is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWhere there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIPraised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIPraised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIA single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISII am the herald of the Great King.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIStart by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
FRANCIS OF ASSISILord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWe 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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