Italian - Saint | 1182 - 1226
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Francis of Assisi
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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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Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
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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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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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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 poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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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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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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