While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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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 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 injury let me sow pardon.
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