Quotes About Francis

In every religion, among the people who believe in it and fight for it, there is one Francis of Assisi to a legion of Brother Arnulphs.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.

I really want to fight this big scary guy, Francis Ngannou.

Simply because holiness is the product of grace, and God gives grace only to the humble.

At the end of the eighteenth century, the three Orders of Saint Francis numbered a hundred and fifteen thousand friars and twenty-eight thousand nuns. Four popes, forty-five cardinals, and forty-six canonized martyrs were enrolled on their record, besides about two thousand more who had shed their blood for the faith. Their missions embraced nearly all the known world; and, in 1621, there were in Spanish America alone five hundred Franciscan convents.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

Are you brothers or something then?" Russell exchanged a glance with Francis and they both smiled faintly, before the fair-haired man took her arm to urge her away from the bed. "Or something," Russell

The only reason Francis is in this business is because it's the most easily manipulated market in the world, and he's a master manipulator.

He wondered what could have possibly happened with his predecessor to make her cross the street in tears. Had it been him they would have been tears of boredom. He remembered what his mother had told him when he was a child: "Waiting is doing what you don't want until you get to do what you want." He would bide his time in the new sinecure, waiting for Francis.

I was influenced very much by St. Francis of Assisi, whose idea was to radically live the gospel. He was not a priest, or even a brother. He was a layperson. His whole concept was to emulate Christ through the gospels, and to live it in a radical way.

'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.

Lenin was probably a saint in reverse; if he had used his energy in violence toward self and the cultivation of love, instead of in violence toward others and the cultivation of hate, he could have become the Saint Francis of the nineteenth century.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.

Notwithstanding, for the more public part of government, which is laws, I think good to note only one deficiency; which is, that all those which have written of laws have written either as philosophers or as lawyers, and none as statesmen.

For quarrels, they are with care and discretion to be avoided. They are commonly for mistresses, healths, place, and words.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

Dancing to song, is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it, that the song be in quire, placed aloft, and accompanied with some broken music; and the ditty fitted to the device.

For the end of logic is to teach a form of argument to secure reason, and not to entrap it.

Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.

'Omega Man' is a little too tied to a specific generation and a little cult-y to me.