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 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.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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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It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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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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I am the herald of the Great King.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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