Humility Quotes by Francis of Assisi

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

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

...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

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

“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

Don't change the world, change worlds.

— Francis of Assisi

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

— Francis of Assisi

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

— Francis of Assisi

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

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

— Francis of Assisi

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

There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

— Francis of Assisi

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

— Francis of Assisi

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

A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.

— Francis of Assisi