Francis of Assisi Quotes - Page 3

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• The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.

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  Hands, Feelings, Grace

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• All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

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  Giving

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• Don't change the world, change worlds.

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  World, Changing The World, Don't Change

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• No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

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  No Regrets, Enemy, Doe

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• Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.

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  Mean, Humility, Sight

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• If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

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  Sympathy, Blessed, Thinking

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• Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

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  Humility, Men, Giving

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• Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

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  Love, Christian, Being Alone

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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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  Sweet, Jesus, Love You

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• Hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.

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  Giving, May

  Saint Francis (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong, Ignatius C. Brady (1982). “Francis and Clare: The Complete Works”, p.58, Paulist Press

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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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  Blessed, Giving, Heaven

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• Where there is darkness, let there be light.

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  Light, Darkness

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• A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

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  Knowledge, Men

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• Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

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  Blessed, Men, People

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• Water is the mirror of nature.

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  Mirrors, Water

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• You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!

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  Saint, Praise, Ends

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• Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

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  Love, Fear, Ignorance

  Saint Francis (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong, Ignatius C. Brady (1982). “Francis and Clare: The Complete Works”, p.35, Paulist Press

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• We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it.

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  Men, Appreciate, Soul

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”

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• The tree of love its roots hath spread Deep in my heart, and rears its head; Rich are its fruits: they joy dispense; Transport the heart, and ravish sense. In love's sweet swoon to thee I cleave, Bless'd source of love.

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  Sweet, Heart, Roots

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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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  Vices, Delight, Sin

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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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  Beautiful, Spiritual, Prayer

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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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  Jesus, Love Is, Light

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• Preach always. Use words if necessary.

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  Saint, Use, Ifs

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• Make me an instrument of thy peace.

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  Inspirational, Instruments

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• Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

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  Heaven, Our Actions, Action

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