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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWhile you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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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 injury let me sow pardon.
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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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It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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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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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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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