Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWe 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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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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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
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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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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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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 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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