While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Francis of Assisi
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Francis of Assisi
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Francis of Assisi
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
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
Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.
Francis of Assisi
And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.
Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Francis of Assisi
Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no better when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, simple, and despicable; for what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.
Francis of Assisi
I have sinned against my brother the ass.
Francis of Assisi
O Divine Master, grant that I may not seek to be consoled, as to console. To be understood, as to understand. To be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Francis of Assisi
We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.
Francis of Assisi
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.
Francis of Assisi
