Quotes About Saint Francis Of Assisi

#1. The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing?

Thomas Powers

#2. And because this is now a political problem, the usual political syllogism applies: (a) is a problem: Something Must Be Done, (b) is Something, Therefore (b) Must Be Done.

Charles Stross

#3. I pity the village where no one is a saint, but I also pity the village where everyone is a saint!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#4. Saint Francis of Assisi understood the power of faith put into action to change the human heart, for it was he who said, "Preach the gospel always; when necessary use words." We had not yet spoken a word in their language, but the village elders had already "heard" the gospel.

Richard Stearns

#5. What chance has a Saint Francis, if his Assisi is a multicultured, financial, unyieldingly secular northern city, whose lepers and other detrimentals are charges on the public purse?

Robertson Davies

#6. Family," she whispered. "So many people go through their lives with blinders on. They become self-involved and only want to think about their wants and their desires. They don't leave room for anything else, and then, too late, they realize how important their families were.

Julie Garwood

#7. Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

Tony Kushner

#8. You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!

Francis Of Assisi

#9. The office' is a cemetery of dreams.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. He was annoyed with his mind - it would be a lot easier to do his task well if his mind would just behave and not keep making him scared.

Larry McMurtry

#11. Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over
and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.

Pope Francis

#12. [Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change

Jon M. Sweeney

#13. Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

Robert Browning

#14. With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

Michael Strahan

#15. One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words.' Opportunities to do so are all around us. Do not miss them by waiting too long on the road to Damascus.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#16. We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

Eckhart Tolle

#17. Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Saint Francis of Assisi

Joyce Meyer

#18. Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.

Robert Dallek

#19. Unless its done on purpose, crumbs and cleavage don't go together.

Donna Lynn Hope

#20. To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond ... You - what have you done?

Josemaria Escriva

#21. If one can't be happy, one must be amused ...

Nancy Mitford

#22. Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

Francis Of Assisi

#23. Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

Michael Sandel

#24. Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work.

Junot Diaz