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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

Francis of Assisi

Praised 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.
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Beautiful God Himself Light Nature Praise
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
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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Bright Moon Nature Praise Stars
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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Act Darkness Glory Greatness Light Mindset Prayer Will
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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Beg Glory Myself Poor Poverty Sun
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Care Poor Poverty World
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
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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Compassionate Deal God Man
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
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Ourselves Religious Talk Walk
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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Purity Simplicity Wisdom World
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Choice Love Myself Seek
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
I am the herald of the Great King.
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Greatness Identity King
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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God Himself Power Work

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