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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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Purity Simplicity Wisdom World
Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Charity Fear Temptation
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Choice Love Myself Seek
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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Beg Glory Myself Poor Poverty Sun
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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Forgiveness Kindness Religious
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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Carry Charity Deserve Generosity Lose Man Material Reward World
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Gift Grace Power
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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Compassionate Deal God Man
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Evil Wicked Wisdom
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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God Hate Love Myself Peace
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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Human Humble Purity Simplicity Wisdom
It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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Appearance Face God Service
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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Charity Fear Ignorance Wisdom
I am the herald of the Great King.
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Greatness Identity King
For it is in giving that we receive.
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Generosity Kindness
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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Humility Man Pride Religious World

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

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