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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.

Francis of Assisi

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
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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Color Flower Government Nature Praise
I am the herald of the Great King.
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Greatness Identity King
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Ourselves Religious Talk Walk
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 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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Compassionate Deal God Man
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Choice Love Myself Seek
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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Beg Glory Myself Poor Poverty Sun
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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Himself Man Obedience
For it is in giving that we receive.
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Generosity Kindness
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
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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Forgiveness Kindness Religious
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
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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Charity Fear Ignorance Wisdom
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Charity Fear Temptation

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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