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 ASSISIIt is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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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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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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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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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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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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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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