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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.

Francis of Assisi

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Francis of Assisi
Died: 1226
Died: October 3
Catholic Deacon
Friar Franciscan
Poet
Saint
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
Right
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Needs
Creatures
Animal
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Helping
Assist
Human
Creature
Humans
Protection
Need
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You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.
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Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.
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Start by doing what's necessary then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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Nor did demons crucify Him it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
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Where there is darkness, let there be light.
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You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!
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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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