Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWe must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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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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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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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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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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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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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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