No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
FRANCIS OF ASSISINo one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIf 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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIAbove all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIPraised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIThe 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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWhile you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIPraised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIPraised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWhere there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIt is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIf God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIf a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man’s conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIStart by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIt is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWe should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake.
FRANCIS OF ASSISILord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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