It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISINo one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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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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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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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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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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