Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIThe Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
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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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this 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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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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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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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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