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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIGreat 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.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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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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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the 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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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 in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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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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