Francis of Assisi

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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

— Francis of Assisi

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

— Francis of Assisi

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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. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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