While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIt is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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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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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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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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