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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Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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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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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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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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