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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.

Francis of Assisi

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Forgiveness Kindness Religious
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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Carry Charity Deserve Generosity Lose Man Material Reward World
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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Blessing Born Father Glory Ourselves Sacrifice Sin Son Victim Willing
For it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Generosity Kindness
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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Purity Simplicity Wisdom World
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Forgiveness Injury Kindness
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Enemy Harm Yourself
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Care Heart Lips Peace Yourself
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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God Hate Love Myself Peace
Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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Death Mortal Religious Sin
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Ourselves Religious Talk Walk
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Evil Wicked Wisdom
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 ASSISI

Beg Glory Myself Poor Poverty Sun
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Care Poor Poverty World
Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Charity Fear Temptation
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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

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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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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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