Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWoe to those who die in mortal sin!
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the 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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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