The greatest security we can ...

The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.
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 Francis of Assisi

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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 Francis of Assisi
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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 Francis of Assisi
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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 Francis of Assisi
I therefore command all my Brothers, those living now and those to come in the future, to venerate the Holy Mother of God, whom we always implore to be our Protectress, to praise her at all times, in all circumstances of life, with all the means in their power and with the greatest devotion and submission.
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You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.
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 Francis of Assisi