A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIA single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIf 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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIf 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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISII am the herald of the Great King.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIThe 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 ASSISINo 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 ASSISIGrant 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.
FRANCIS OF ASSISILord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIHoly charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWhile you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIt is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIWe should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIStart by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIPraised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIPure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIf God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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