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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIHoly wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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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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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 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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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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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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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