It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIPraised 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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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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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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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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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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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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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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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For it is in giving that we receive.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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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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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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