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• Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.

  Francis of Assisi

  Son, Men, Hands

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Compassion, Use, Failing

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• Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

  Francis of Assisi

  Children, Fathering, Capable

  "Saints in the Stars" by Mary Mann, logger.believermag.com. August 8, 2014.

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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.

  Francis of Assisi

  Men, Doors, Sick

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• What you are looking for is what is looking.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the Devil.

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  Thinking, Dust, Should Have

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

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• Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendours and bears likeness of you, Most High One.

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  Beautiful, Brother, Light

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• And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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  Death, Dying, Born

  Francis of Assisi (2017). “St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers”, p.72, Paper & Ink

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• I have sinned against my brother the ass.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Ass, My Brother

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• And just as He appeared before the holy Apostles in true flesh, so now He has us see Him in the Sacred Bread. Looking at Him with the eyes of their flesh, they saw only His Flesh, but regarding Him with the eyes of the spirit, they believed that He was God. In like manner, as we see bread and wine with our bodily eyes, let us see and believe firmly that it is His Most Holy Body and Blood, True and Living.For in this way our Lord is ever present among those who believe in him, according to what He said: "Behold, I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world."

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  Believe, Wine, Eye

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• Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

  Francis of Assisi

  Rain, Humble, Rivers

  "Catholicism & Orthodox Christianity". Book by Stephen F. Brown, Khaled Anatolios, p.54, 2009.

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• The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule, neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given me by the Lord.

  Francis of Assisi

  Life, Believe, Humility

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• Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Sadness, Servant Of God

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1951). “The Little Flowers of St. Francis: The Mirror of Perfection; The Life of St. Francis”

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• Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.

  Francis of Assisi

  Mother, Flower, Environmental

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1951). “The Little Flowers of St. Francis: The Mirror of Perfection; The Life of St. Francis”

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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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  Mother, Brother, Mean

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• Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and our own sins. Let us, then, consider what He has done for us, and what we have done against Him; let us call to mind our sins in detail, and His gracious benefits in like manner, remembering that whatever there is of good in us is not ours, but His, and then we need not be afraid of vainglory or of taking complacency in ourselves.

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  Humble, Justice Of God, Mind

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• We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world

  Francis of Assisi

  Jesus, Church, World

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• For One in such a lofty position to stoop so low is a marvel that is staggering. What sublime humility and humble sublimeness, that the Lord of the Universe, the Divine Son of God, should stoop as to hide Himself under the appearance of bread for our salvation! Behold the humble way of God, my brothers. Therefore, do not hold yourselves to be anything of yourselves, so that you may be entirely acceptable to One Who gives Himself entirely to you.

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  Brother, Humility, Humble

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• Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

  Francis of Assisi

  Madness, Injury, Pardon Me

  Speech of Mother Teresa of Calcutta to the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, DC, www.priestsforlife.org. February 03, 1994.

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• You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.

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  Hands, Spirit, Hands Of God

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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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  Love, Sweet, Heart

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• Who we are looking for is who is looking.

  Francis of Assisi

  Freedom, Life Changing, Who We Are

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• It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more . .. I know Christ, the poor crucified One.

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  Mind, Saint, Needs

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• The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

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  Brave, Acquaintance, Unfortunate

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• And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord. And when It is sacrificed on the altar by the priest or borne anywhere, let all the people on bended knees render praise, glory and honor to the True and Living Lord God.

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  Blood, People, Honor

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