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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIA single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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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It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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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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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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