Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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.
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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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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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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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.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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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, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
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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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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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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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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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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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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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