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.
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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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The 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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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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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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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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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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