St Francis Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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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.
— Oscar Wilde
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At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St.…
— Thomas Boswell
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Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's…
— Pope Francis
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Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer…
— Ashley Judd
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In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a…
— Bonaventure
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Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.
— Brand Blanshard
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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 the moment. 'Where…
— Margaret Thatcher
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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 he would die…
— Francis of Assisi
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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 on with a…
— Abbe Pierre
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the…
— Michael Leunig
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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 of our lives…
— Alan Paton
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In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we…
— Phil Callaway
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Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and…
— Aldous Huxley
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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 St. Francis of…
— Albert Schweitzer
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I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.
— Dennis Kucinich
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Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
— Rebecca West
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If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all…
— J D Salinger
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We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.†Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates kidnapped me and…
— Lisa Kleypas
Who Wrote These St Francis Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 St Francis Quotes as follows: