Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!
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.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
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.
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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.
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
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.
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.
But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear
I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it.
From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur
"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much."
A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.
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