Francis Of Assisi Quotes

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

If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life to be lived, as light to be lit, as love is to be loved, as joy to be given, as peace to be spread.

Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.

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

Don't change the world, change worlds.

Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.

All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

Preach always. Use words if necessary.

Where there is darkness, let there be light.

Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.

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.

What you are looking for is what is looking.

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial.

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

Water is the mirror of nature.

There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

Gold hath no lustre of its own. It shines by temperate use alone.

We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world

A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.

Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.

Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

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.

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

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

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

Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.

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

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

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

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

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

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.

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.

I am the herald of the Great King.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.