For it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIA single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
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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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If 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.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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 wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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