The process of my transformation came to a head with my…

“Phaedrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the abode of Shiva, high…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane…

— Brandon Sanderson

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our…

— Alan Paton

“ The Saint of Assisi Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone of Assisi, better known as Francis, wanted to be a soldier. But in the…

— Jean F. Blashfield

“O Lord of love and kindness, who created the beautiful earth and all the creatures walking and flying in it, so that they may…

— Daphne Sheldrick

...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis…

— Albert Schweitzer

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

— Simone Weil

“Ly-di-ah! I sit beneath your window, laaaass, singing ’cause I loooove your a—” “For the love of St. Francis of Assisi, someone call a…

— Michelle M. Pillow

“I don' mean to be at all...St. Francis of Assisi or something, but anyone can shout obscenities. Why should I become like her? Why…

— Sylvain Reynard

St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would…

— Francis of Assisi

“Necessity knows no magic formuae—they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to…

— Milan Kundera

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged…

— Josemaria Escriva

Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." Asserting that character/community…

— Jack Driscoll

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI”

— Ian Morgan Cron

“Praised be my Lord, for our sister water. St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun”

— St. Francis of Assisi Robin Weston