No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIMen 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.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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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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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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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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