Top 100 Francis Of Assisi Quotes
#1. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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#3. What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.
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#4. 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.
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#5. We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
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#7. There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.
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#8. When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.
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#9. God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.
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#10. 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.
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#11. First do the necessary, then do the feasible, then you will be able to achieve the impossible.
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#12. We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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#13. 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.
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#16. Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to ... use words.
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#18. While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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#19. Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendours and bears likeness of you, Most High One.
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#21. It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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#24. Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.
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#25. 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.
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#26. A man who works with his hands is a labourer. A man who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. A man who works with his haands, his head, and his heart is an artist.
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#29. We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it.
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#30. 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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#32. You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!
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#33. By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.
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#34. May the power of your love, Lord Christ, fiery and sweet as honey, so absorb our hearts as to withdraw them from all that is under heaven. Grant that we may be ready to die for love of your love, as you died for love of our love.
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#35. Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.
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#36. We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the Devil.
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#38. You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.
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#40. Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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#41. 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.
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#42. The tree of love its roots hath spread Deep in my heart, and rears its head; Rich are its fruits: they joy dispense; Transport the heart, and ravish sense. In love's sweet swoon to thee I cleave, Bless'd source of love.
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#43. I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
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#44. There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching.
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#45. Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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#49. All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.
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#50. And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.
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#51. 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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#52. Do not put off any longer confessing all your sins, for death will soon come. Give and it will be given you; forgive and you will be forgiven ... Blessed are they who die repentant, for they shall go to the Kingdom of Heaven!
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#53. 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
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#54. Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.
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#55. Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial.
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#56. God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.
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#57. A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.
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#58. No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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#62. Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.
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#63. Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.
St. Francis of Assisi,
Canticle of the Sun
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#64. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received
only what you have given.
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#65. 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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#66. Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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#68. You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.
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#69. Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.
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#73. A man sins who wishes to receive more from his neighbor than he is himself willing to give to the Lord God.
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#74. I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence and honor for the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things, whether on earth or in heaven, have been brought to peace and reconciled with Almighty God
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#75. It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more . .. I know Christ, the poor crucified One.
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#76. 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.
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#77. The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.
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#78. Gold hath no lustre of its own.
It shines by temperate use alone.
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#79. Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
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#80. The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today
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#81. 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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#83. The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.
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#84. It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.
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#85. Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.
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#87. Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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#88. Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.
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#89. 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.
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#90. 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.
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#91. Hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.
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#92. What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.
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#93. 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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#95. Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.
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#97. All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
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#99. 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.
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#100. 195. "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.
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