Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIt is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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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 not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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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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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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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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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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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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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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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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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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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