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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Francis of Assisi

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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Beg Glory Myself Poor Poverty Sun
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
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Care Heart Lips Peace Yourself
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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Bright Moon Nature Praise Stars
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
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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Human Humble Purity Simplicity Wisdom
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Evil Wicked Wisdom
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Ourselves Religious Talk Walk
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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Charity Fear Ignorance Wisdom
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Care Poor Poverty World
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
Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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Death Mortal Religious Sin
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Choice Love Myself Seek
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
Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Charity Fear Temptation

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