Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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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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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 not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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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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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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 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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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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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