Francis of Assisi Quotes

Francis of Assisi
Italian Saint
Born: 1182
Died: 1226
God Holy Men Wisdom World You
Related authors: Joan of Arc Mother Teresa Pope John Paul II Saint Ambrose Saint Augustine Saint Ignatius Saint Teresa of Avila St. Jerome
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Francis of Assisi
You Impossible Possible Doing Then Suddenly Start Necessary
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Francis of Assisi
Love Me Peace Hatred Thy Instrument Make Lord Sow Where
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. Francis of Assisi
Inspirational Drive Single Enough Sunbeam Shadows Many Away
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Francis of Assisi
Wisdom Ignorance Charity Fear Neither Nor Where
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. Francis of Assisi
Preach Preaching Our Unless Walking Anywhere Use
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. Francis of Assisi
God You Compassion Will Men Exclude Fellow Likewise Fellow Men Deal Shelter Any Pity Who Creatures
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. Francis of Assisi
Charity World Reward Will Men Lose Carry Recompense Give Alms Lord Material Material Things Leave Behind Them Deserve Things Receive
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi
Love Seek Lord Loved To Love Might Much Grant
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. Francis of Assisi
You Peace Heart Be Careful More Lips While Proclaiming Your Fully Even Careful
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. Francis of Assisi
God Human Being Every Others Ought Never Instead Over Sake Submissive Human Being Should Who Servants Desire
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. Francis of Assisi
God Great Me You Darkness Light Mind Will Glorious Thou All Things Abroad Only Thy Shed Lord Lord Jesus Pray Accordance May Holy Act Your Found Things Jesus
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. Francis of Assisi
You Enemy Except No-One Does Your Harm
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs. Francis of Assisi
You Mother Sister Our Earth Varied Through Coloured Mother Earth Lord Praised Governs Sustains Fruits Us Producing Who Herbs Flowers
Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong. Francis of Assisi
Beautiful You Strong Light Fire Brother Through He Robust Lord Praised Whom Playful Night
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. Francis of Assisi
Son Father Made Blessed Glorious Own Victim Gave Our Willed All Things Born Cross Through Sacrificial He Altar Himself Were His Blood Sins Offer Done Us Should Who Whom Things
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure. Francis of Assisi
Wise Humble Simple Pure Must Rather According Prudent Flesh
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. Francis of Assisi
Beautiful Day Great You Light Sun High Brother Give Bears Through Splendour He Most Likeness Lord Praised Sir Us Your Radiant Who Whom Creatures
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world. Francis of Assisi
World Pride Men Humility All Things Holy Things
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair. Francis of Assisi
You Moon Made Sister Stars Through Fair Lord Praised Precious Heavens Them Bright
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. Francis of Assisi
Wisdom World Simplicity Pure Holy Flesh
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. Francis of Assisi
Man Obey Superior Give Shall He Him Although Any Order Which Against Dismissed Who Conscience
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world. Francis of Assisi
World Poverty Cares Avarice Holy
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. Francis of Assisi
Me Poverty Own Other Beneath Our Possess Distinctive Sun Sign Name Glory Does Permit Sublime Begging Than Order Anything Your Grant Treasure
I am the herald of the Great King. Francis of Assisi
Great King Am
Woe to those who die in mortal sin! Francis of Assisi
Those Mortal Sin Woe Die Who

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