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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Francis of Assisi

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Care Heart Lips Peace Yourself
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
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, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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God Hate Love Myself Peace
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Enough Light Power Shadow Sun
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake.
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Desire God Human Servant
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Care Poor Poverty World
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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Purity Simplicity Wisdom World
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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Enemy Harm Yourself
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Evil Wicked Wisdom
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
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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Himself Man Obedience
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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Charity Fear Ignorance Wisdom
Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
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Beautiful Brother Fire God Light Play Praise Strong
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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Blessing Born Father Glory Ourselves Sacrifice Sin Son Victim Willing
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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Forgiveness Kindness Religious

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