Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIGrant 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.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow 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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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 in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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