Tag: Francis of Assisi
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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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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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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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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It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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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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