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.
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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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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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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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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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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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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