Francis Of Assisi Quotes

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Dorothy Parker

“[Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change”

— Jon M. Sweeney

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

— Simone Weil

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of one single candle -St. Francis of Assisi”

— G.A. Zanni

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

— St. Francis of Assisi Robin Weston

“It is in sudden testings that our treasure is revealed. St. Francis of Assisi”

— David M. Edwards

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went…

— Abbe Pierre

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

— Josemaria Escriva

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

— Francis of Assisi

“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

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

— Alan Paton

“He’d played sports in high school, and then proved that a young man with the build of St. Francis of Assisi could…

— Michael Lewis

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

— Milan Kundera

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff…

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Jack Driscoll

St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The…

— Olivier Clement

As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that…

— Simone Weil

The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book…

— Pope Francis

Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be…

— Pope Francis

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

— Daphne Sheldrick

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

— Michelle M. Pillow

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

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Sylvain Reynard

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Aldous Huxley

“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Jean F. Blashfield

“… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted,…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the…

— Nick Harrison

Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch…

— Pope Francis

One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life…

— Malcolm Muggeridge