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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. "
Francis of Assisi
Fire
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Brother
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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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" Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. "
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" It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. "
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" We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure. "
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" It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. "
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" Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses. "
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" Where there is injury let me sow pardon. "
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" 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. "
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" If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. "
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Through
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" Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs. "
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Earth
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You
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" 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. "
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Men
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" The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins. "
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