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“The idea of Christian perfection, which began in the ancient monasteries and spread to the world as an ideal, is one of the most appealing, demanding and ultimately hopeless notions of the spiritua...”
“Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi,Canticle of the Sun”
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”
“Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.”
“If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.”
“It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.”
“We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.”
“Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.”
“Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High,...”
“I am the herald of the Great King.”
“It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.”
“Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.”
“Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.”
“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 re...”
“Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.”
“Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.”
“Start by doing whats necessary, then whats possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
“Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.”
“Start by doing what's necessary then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
