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title: "34 Francis Of Assisi Quotes by 31 authors"
description: "Browse 34 Francis Of Assisi quotes by 31 authors. Discover the best Francis Of Assisi sayings and thoughts."
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> [Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/three-highballs-and-i-think-i-m-st-francis-of-assisi/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

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> [Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/like-dear-st-francis-of-assisi-i-am-wedded-to-poverty-but-in-my-case/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-weil/one-cannot-imagine-st-francis-of-assisi-talking-about-rights/)

[Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-weil/)

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> [ “\[Francis of Assisi was one of the\] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-m-sweeney/francis-of-assisi-was-one-of-the-signal-figures-who-are-catalysts-for/)

[Jon M. Sweeney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-m-sweeney/)

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> [“Praised be my Lord, for our sister water. St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-francis-of-assisi-robin-weston/praised-be-my-lord-for-our-sister-water-st-francis-of-assisi-canticle/)

[St. Francis of Assisi Robin Weston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-francis-of-assisi-robin-weston/)

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> [“It is in sudden testings that our treasure is revealed. St. Francis of Assisi”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-m-edwards/it-is-in-sudden-testings-that-our-treasure-is-revealed-st-francis-of/)

[David M. Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-m-edwards/)

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> [“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of one single candle -St. Francis of Assisi”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-a-zanni/all-the-darkness-in-the-world-cannot-extinguish-the-light-of-one/)

[G.A. Zanni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-a-zanni/)

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> [“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-morgan-cron/start-by-doing-what-s-necessary-then-do-what-s-possible-and-suddenly/)

[Ian Morgan Cron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-morgan-cron/)

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> [St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-of-assisi/st-francis-of-assisi-was-hoeing-his-garden-when-someone-asked-what-he/)

[Francis of Assisi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-of-assisi/)

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> [To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josemaria-escriva/to-defend-his-purity-saint-francis-of-assisi-rolled-in-the-snow-saint/)

[Josemaria Escriva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josemaria-escriva/)

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> [The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abbe-pierre/the-process-of-my-transformation-came-to-a-head-with-my-discovery-of/)

[Abbe Pierre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abbe-pierre/)

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> [“He’d played sports in high school, and then proved that a young man with the build of St. Francis of Assisi could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-lewis/he-d-played-sports-in-high-school-and-then-proved-that-a-young-man/)

[Michael Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-lewis/)

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> [St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-paton/st-francis-of-assisi-taught-me-that-there-is-a-wound-in-the-creation/)

[Alan Paton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-paton/)

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> [“Necessity knows no magic formuae—they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/necessity-knows-no-magic-formuae-they-are-all-left-to-chance-if-a/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/the-rich-fop-francis-of-assisi-was-bored-all-his-life-until-he-fell/)

[Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kreeft/)

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> [I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-thatcher/i-would-just-like-to-remember-some-words-of-st-francis-of-assisi/)

[Margaret Thatcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-thatcher/)

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> [Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." Asserting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-driscoll/jose-ortega-y-gasset-says-tell-me-the-landscape-in-which-you-live-and/)

[Jack Driscoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-driscoll/)

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> [As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-weil/as-for-the-spirit-of-poverty-i-do-not-remember-any-moment-when-it-was/)

[Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-weil/)

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> [St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivier-clement/st-seraphim-like-francis-of-assisi-talked-to-animals-one-day-two-nuns/)

[Olivier Clement](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivier-clement/)

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> [The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-muggeridge/the-greatest-artists-saints-philosophers-and-until-quite-recent-times/)

[Malcolm Muggeridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-muggeridge/)

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> [“Ly-di-ah! I sit beneath your window, laaaass, singing ’cause I loooove your a—” “For the love of St. Francis of Assisi, someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-m-pillow/ly-di-ah-i-sit-beneath-your-window-laaaass-singing-cause-i-loooove/)

[Michelle M. Pillow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-m-pillow/)

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> [One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dieter-f-uchtdorf/one-of-the-greatest-sermons-ever-pronounced-on-missionary-work-is/)

[Dieter F. Uchtdorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dieter-f-uchtdorf/)

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> [“O Lord of love and kindness, who created the beautiful earth and all the creatures walking and flying in it, so that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-sheldrick/o-lord-of-love-and-kindness-who-created-the-beautiful-earth-and-all/)

[Daphne Sheldrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-sheldrick/)

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> [...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-schweitzer/ethics-has-not-only-to-do-with-mankind-but-with-the-animal-creation/)

[Albert Schweitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-schweitzer/)

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> [“I don' mean to be at all...St. Francis of Assisi or something, but anyone can shout obscenities. Why should I become like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvain-reynard/i-don-mean-to-be-at-all-st-francis-of-assisi-or-something-but-anyone/)

[Sylvain Reynard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvain-reynard/)

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> [The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/the-whole-story-of-the-universe-is-implicit-in-any-part-of-it-the/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/the-religious-geniuses-of-all-ages-have-been-distinguished-by-this/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/the-main-point-of-christianity-was-this-that-nature-is-not-our-mother-2/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

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> [“ The Saint of Assisi Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone of Assisi, better known as Francis, wanted to be a soldier. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-f-blashfield/the-saint-of-assisi-francesco-di-pietro-di-bernardone-of-assisi/)

[Jean F. Blashfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-f-blashfield/)

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> [“… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/the-countryside-and-the-village-are-symbols-of-stability-and-security/)

[G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/)

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> [“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harrison/i-am-the-alpha-and-the-omega-says-the-lord-god-who-is-and-who-was-and/)

[Nick Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-harrison/)

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> [Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-francis/small-yet-strong-in-the-love-of-god-like-saint-francis-of-assisi-all/)

[Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-francis/)

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> [Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-francis/francis-of-assisi-tells-us-we-should-work-to-build-peace-but-there-is/)

[Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-francis/)

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> [ The vocation of being a 'protector' \[. . .\] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-francis/the-vocation-of-being-a-protector-means-protecting-all-creation-the/)

[Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-francis/)

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                        "text": "The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid… I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.",
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                        "text": "The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.",
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                        "text": "The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another.",
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                        "text": "“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate. This gives to the typically Christian pleasure in this earth a strange touch of lightness that is almost frivolity. Nature was a solemn mother to the worshipers of Isis and Cybele. Nature was a solemn mother to Wordsworth or to Emerson. But Nature is not solemn to Francis of Assisi or to George Herbert. To St. Francis, Nature is a sister, and even a younger sister: a little, dancing sister, to be laughed at as well as loved.”",
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                        "text": "“ The Saint of Assisi Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone of Assisi, better known as Francis, wanted to be a soldier. But in the year 1205, he had a vision telling him that God had other plans for him. He became a hermit, forsaking all worldly goods. Francis began to preach, drawing followers to his side. He created simple rules by which these men could live as a community under God, trying to live like Jesus. Today, the group he started, called the Franciscans, is one of the largest religious orders in the Catholic Church. By the time Francis died in 1226, some people believed that he had been an extraordinary man, able to work miracles. Within two years, the church declared him a saint. Saint Francis of Assisi thought that it was the duty of humans to care for the natural world, God’s creation. Artists today often depict Saint Francis in paintings and statues with birds and small animals around him.”",
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                        "text": "“… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted, liminal spaces, at a very narrow remove from the atavistic Wild. Arcadia is not the realm even of Giorgione and of Claude, with its cracked pillars and thunderbolts, its lurking banditti; still less is it Poussin’s sun-dappled and regularised realm of order, where, although the lamb may be destined for the altar and the spit, all things proceed with charm and gravity and studied gesture; least of all is it the degenerate and prettified Arcady of Fragonard and Watteau, filled with simpering courtier-Corydons, pallid Olympians, and fat-arsed putti. (It is only family piety that prevents me from taking a poker to an inherited coffee service in gilt porcelain with bastardised, deutero-Fragonard scenes painted on the sides of every damned thing. Cue Wallace Greenslade: ‘… “Round the Horne”, with Marie Antoinette as the dairymaid and Kenneth Williams as the manager of the camp-site….’) No: Arcadia is the very margin of the liminal space between the safe tilth and the threatening Wild, in which Pan lurks, shaggy and goatish, and Death proclaims, from ambush, et in Arcadia ego. Arcadia is not the Wide World nor the Riverbank, but the Wild Wood. And in that wood are worse than stoats and weasels, and the true Pan is no Francis of Assisi figure, sheltering infant otters. The Wild that borders and penetrates Arcady is red in tooth and claw.”",
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                        "text": "“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” REVELATION 1:8 You are holy, Lord, the only God, and your deeds are wonderful. You are strong. You are great. You are the Most High, You are almighty. You, holy Father, are King of heaven and earth. You are Three and One, Lord God, all good. You are Good, all Good, supreme Good, Lord God, living and true. You are love, You are wisdom. You are humility, You are endurance. You are rest, You are peace. You are joy and gladness. You are justice and moderation. You are all our riches, And you suffice for us. You are beauty. You are gentleness. You are our protector, You are our guardian and defender. You are courage. You are our haven and our hope. You are our faith, Our great consolation. You are our eternal life, Great and wonderful Lord, God almighty, Merciful Saviour. ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI”",
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                        "text": "Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.",
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