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• It is in giving that we receive.

• 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.

• It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

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

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

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

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

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

• While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

• I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

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St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is one of the most beloved and respected Christian saints. Known for his piety, simplicity and humility, his words of wisdom have an everlasting sheen. His love for birds, animals, trees and all the creations of God is legendary. One day, while St. Francis was traveling with some companions, they happened upon a place in the road where birds filled the trees on either side. He told his companions to “wait for me while I go to Click to Read More

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There are moments when the Spirit moves among men and the breath of the Lord is abroad upon the waters of our being; there are others when it retires and men are left to act in the strength or the weakness of their own egoism. The first are periods when even a little effort produces great results and changes destiny; the second are spaces of time when much labour goes to the making of a little result. It is true that the latter may prepare the former, may be the little smoke of sacrifice going up to heaven which calls down the rain of God’s bounty. Unhappy is the man or the nation which, when the divine moment arrives, is found sleeping or unprepared to use it, because the lamp has not been kept trimmed for the welcome and the ears are sealed to the call. But thrice woe to them who are strong and ready, yet waste the force or misuse the moment; for them is irreparable loss or a great destruction. In the hour of God cleanse thy soul of all self-deceit and hypocrisy and vain self-flattering that thou mayst look straight into thy spirit and hear that which summons it.

All insincerity of nature, once thy defence against the eye of the Master and the light of the ideal, becomes now a gap in thy armour and invites the blow. Even Click to Read More

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