Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about peace, love
Quotes by Saint Francis of Assisi (Franciscans)
18 quotes by Saint Francis of Assisi (Franciscans)
Saint Francis of Assisi (Franciscans) - italian saint
Also known as: Franciscans.
Also called: Giovanni Bernardone.
Died on 03 oct 1226
Origin country: Italy
Biography: Saint Francis of Assisi (Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone) was a Catholic deacon and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans.
He is known as the patron saint of animals, the environment and Italy, and it is...
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about gifts, grace, self-control
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.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about treasure, sublime, glory, poverty, sun, name, order
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about work, god, things
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.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about conscience, order, man
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about work, god
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.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about man, god
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about use
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about god, face
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about love
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about enemies
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about use
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about impossible
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about charity, ignorance, fear, wisdom
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about peace, heart
