Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIf God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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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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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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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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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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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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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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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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