Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIHoly charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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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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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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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Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
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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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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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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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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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