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What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.
Francis of Assisi
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Francis of Assisi
Died: 1226
Died: October 3
Catholic Deacon
Friar Franciscan
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Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone
St. Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi
San Francisco de Asís
San Francesco d'Assisi
Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone
von Assisi
Saint Franz
von Assisi
Saint Franziskus
San Francisco de Asis
Saint Francis
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Preach the gospel wherever you can when all else fails use words.
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God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.
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Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.
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Where there is darkness, let there be light.
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Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist
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Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendours and bears likeness of you, Most High One.
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Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.
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A promise is a child of the understanding and the will the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.
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Do not put off any longer confessing all your sins, for death will soon come. Give and it will be given you forgive and you will be forgiven. . . Blessed are they who die repentant, for they shall go to the Kingdom of Heaven!
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Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
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It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.
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Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.
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...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.
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