It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIf 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.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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 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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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 Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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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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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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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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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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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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
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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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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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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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