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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIf 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.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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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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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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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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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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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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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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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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