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Saint Francis of Assisi
1181-1226
The emblems of St. Francis of Assisi are the wolf and the lamb.
St. Francis of Assisi Quotations
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. -- St. Francis of AssisiFor it is in giving that we receive. -- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.. --St. Francis of Assisi
Grant
me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our
order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the
sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony
than begging. -- St. Francis of Assisi
I
have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work
through anyone.-- St. Francis of Assisi
If
a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that
man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be
dismissed. -- St. Francis of Assisi
If
God can work through me, he can work through anyone. --St. Francis of
Assisi
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. -- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord,
grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. --St.
Francis of Assisi
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