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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.

Francis of Assisi

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Human Humble Purity Simplicity Wisdom
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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Beg Glory Myself Poor Poverty Sun
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
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
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

Himself Man Obedience
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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Act Darkness Glory Greatness Light Mindset Prayer Will
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
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

Enemy Harm Yourself
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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Compassionate Deal God Man
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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God Himself Power Work
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Enough Light Power Shadow Sun
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Evil Wicked 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
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Humility Man Pride Religious World
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Ourselves Religious Talk Walk
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Choice Love Myself Seek

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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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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