Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“[Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change” — Jon M. Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Praised be my Lord, for our sister water. St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun” — St. Francis of Assisi Robin Weston Copy Share Image
“It is in sudden testings that our treasure is revealed. St. Francis of Assisi” — David M. Edwards Copy Share Image
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of one single candle -St. Francis of Assisi” — G.A. Zanni Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went… — Abbe Pierre Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." Asserting… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“O Lord of love and kindness, who created the beautiful earth and all the creatures walking and flying in it, so that… — Daphne Sheldrick Copy Share Image
...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“ The Saint of Assisi Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone of Assisi, better known as Francis, wanted to be a soldier. But… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
“… 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 Copy Share Image
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the… — Nick Harrison Copy Share Image
Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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