We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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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Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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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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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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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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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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