While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this 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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For it is in giving that we receive.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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 not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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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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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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