Quotes from St. Francis Of Assisi

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no better when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, simple, and despicable; for what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

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

God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me a right faith, a sure hope, a perfect charity, sense and knowledge, so that I may carry out your holy command.

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

You wanderer on the path! There is no path, only wandering.

A man sins who wishes to receive more from his neighbor than he is himself willing to give to the Lord God.

Upon this, Bernard went and sold all that he had. Now he was very rich, and with great joy he distributed his wealth to widows, to orphans, to prisoners, to monasteries, to hospitals, and to pilgrims, in all which St Francis assisted him with prudence and fidelity.

Be praised, my Lord, through sister water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.

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.