Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIf God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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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 God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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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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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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