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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.

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
Living
Quake
Everything
Altar
Men
Altars
World
Halt
Awe
Son
Heaven
Christ
Exult

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You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.
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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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Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you through those who endure sickness and trial.
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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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Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.
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Gold hath no lustre of its own. It shines by temperate use alone.
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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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Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light
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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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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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Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.
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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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A promise is a child of the understanding and the will the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.
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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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You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!
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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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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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