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Saint Francis of Assisi

(Roman Catholic Church) an Italian and the Roman Catholic monk who founded the Franciscan order of friars (1181-1226)

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

– Saint Francis of Assisi

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Preach the gospel at all times -- If necessary, use words.

– Saint Francis of Assisi

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Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

– Saint Francis of Assisi

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O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

– Saint Francis of Assisi

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For it is in giving that we receive.

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

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

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Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.

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People who work with their hands are laborers. People who work with their hands and their heads are craftsmen. People who work with their hands, their heads, and their hearts are artists

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Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

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Denise LaChance
The serenity prayer comes from Reinhold Niebuhr, not St. Francis of Assisi.
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