Francis of Assisi Quotes

Italian - Saint | 1182 - 1226

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

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For it is in giving that we receive.

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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

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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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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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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

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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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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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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

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