Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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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, 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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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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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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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For it is in giving that we receive.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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