Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

— Oscar Wilde

I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment.…

— Margaret Thatcher

The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see,…

— Aldous Huxley

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

“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

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

Clearly. I spend all my time drinking highballs on lawn chairs. It looks glamorous, but that shoot was mostly spent laughing, shivering or screaming.…

— Kat Dennings

“Preach the Gospel, use words when necessary.”

— St. Francis of assisi

“The servants of God who had been a besieged garrison became a marching army; the ways of the world were filled as with thunder…

— G.K. Chesterton

“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