Francis Of Assisi quotes

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.

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

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

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

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

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

For it is in giving that we receive.

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

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

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.

I am the herald of the Great King.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

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.

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

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

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.

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