It 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.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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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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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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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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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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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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