Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISIIt is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
More Francis of Assisi Quotes
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Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
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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.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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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.
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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.
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