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.
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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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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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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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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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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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