Francis Of Assisi Quotes

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

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.

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

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

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

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

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.

Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.

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

Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun

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

What each man is in Your eyes, thus he is, and no more.

The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.

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

The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.