Words matter. These are the best Francis of Assisi Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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.
For it is in giving that we receive.
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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.
Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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.
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.
I am the herald of the Great King.
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
