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.
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.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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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 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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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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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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Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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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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