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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.

Francis of Assisi

It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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Appearance Face God Service
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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Desire God Human Servant
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Choice Love Myself Seek
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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God Hate Love Myself Peace
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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God Himself Power Work
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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Beautiful God Himself Light Nature Praise
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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Humility Man Pride Religious World
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Care Heart Lips Peace Yourself
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Care Poor Poverty World
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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Beautiful Brother Fire God Light Play Praise Strong
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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Carry Charity Deserve Generosity Lose Man Material Reward World
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Ourselves Religious Talk Walk
Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Charity Fear Temptation
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Gift Grace Power
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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Human Humble Purity Simplicity Wisdom
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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Purity Simplicity Wisdom World

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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