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 ASSISIPraised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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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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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 wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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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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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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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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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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