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 ASSISIIt is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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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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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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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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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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The 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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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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