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The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.
Francis of Assisi
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Francis of Assisi
Died: 1226
Died: October 3
Catholic Deacon
Friar Franciscan
Poet
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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
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May the power of your love, Lord Christ, fiery and sweet as honey, so absorb our hearts as to withdraw them from all that is under heaven. Grant that we may be ready to die for love of your love, as you died for love of our love.
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Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you through those who endure sickness and trial.
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What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.
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Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life to be lived, as light to be lit, as love is to be loved, as joy to be given, as peace to be spread.
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Don't change the world, change worlds.
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Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use words.
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He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist
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Gold hath no lustre of its own. It shines by temperate use alone.
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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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Such was the will of the Father that his Son, blessed and glorious, whom he gave to us, and who was born for us, should by his own blood, sacrifice, and oblation, offer himself on the altar of the cross, not for himself, by whom all things were made, but for our sins, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps.
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St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. I would finish hoeing my garden, he replied.
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By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.
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Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
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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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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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Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.
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Water is the mirror of nature.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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