Quotes from St. Francis Of Assisi
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.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
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.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
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.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
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.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
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.
- St. Francis Of Assisi