While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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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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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