Quotes from Francis of Assisi

For it is in giving that we receive.

It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.

Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life to be lived, as light to be lit, as love is to be loved, as joy to be given, as peace to be spread.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.

Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

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.

Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.

Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.

If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

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.