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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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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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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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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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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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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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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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 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 our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
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