Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The world is a great stage on which God displays his many wonders. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer,… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world. — 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
...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
And just as He appeared before the holy Apostles in true flesh, so now He has us see Him in the Sacred… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God,… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar… — 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
