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Preach the gospel wherever you can when all else fails use words.

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
Failing
Words
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Preach
Fails
Wherever
Gospel
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Gold hath no lustre of its own. It shines by temperate use alone.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!
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The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.
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Don't change the world, change worlds.
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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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I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the most holy Sacrament. I love You and desire You. Come into my heart. I embrace You. Oh, never leave me. May the burning and most sweet power of Your love, O Lord Jesus Christ, I beseech You, absorb my mind that I may die through love of Your love, Who were graciously pleased to die through love of my love.
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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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There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.
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What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.
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I therefore command all my Brothers, those living now and those to come in the future, to venerate the Holy Mother of God, whom we always implore to be our Protectress, to praise her at all times, in all circumstances of life, with all the means in their power and with the greatest devotion and submission.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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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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The world is a great stage on which God displays his many wonders.
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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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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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