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Zitat des Tages von Francis of Assisi:

I am the herald of the Great King.

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

Francis of Assisi

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

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi

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

Francis of Assisi

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, he bears the likeness.

Francis of Assisi

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Francis of Assisi

I am the herald of the Great King.

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

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

Francis of Assisi

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

Francis of Assisi

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.

Francis of Assisi

Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.

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.

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.

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.

Francis of Assisi

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Francis of Assisi

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.

Francis of Assisi

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

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

Francis of Assisi

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 reward and recompense they deserve.

Francis of Assisi

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

Francis of Assisi

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.

Francis of Assisi

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Francis of Assisi

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.

Francis of Assisi