Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIStart by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
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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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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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