"We should seek not so much to pray…" — Francis of Assisi
"We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer."
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92 Quotes by Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- For it is in giving that we receive.
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have…
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