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, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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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, 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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Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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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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