It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIHoly humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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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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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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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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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 charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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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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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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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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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