Italian - Saint | 1182 - 12261
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.
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.
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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.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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.
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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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