May the power of your love, Lord Christ, fiery and sweet as honey, so absorb our hearts as to withdraw them from all that is under heaven. Grant that we may be ready to die for love of your love,… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
“Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in his sight is… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the most holy Sacrament. I love You and desire You. Come into my heart. I embrace… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
