Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
FRANCIS OF ASSISILord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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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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For it is in giving that we receive.
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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 not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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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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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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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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