We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIFor it is in giving that we receive.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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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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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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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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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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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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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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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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