Francis of Assisi Quotes

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• Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

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  Courage, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

  Francis of Assisi

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

  Attributed to Francis of Assisi in Alf Droy "The Lord is my Shepherd" (p. 84), 1999.

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.

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  Waiting, Faces, Helping

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• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
  Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
  Where there is injury, pardon;
  Where there is doubt, faith;
  Where there is despair, hope;
  Where there is darkness, light;
  And where there is sadness, joy.
  O Divine Master,
  Grant that I may not so much seek
  To be consoled as to console,
  To be understood as to understand,
  To be loved, as to love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Spiritual, Prayer, Sadness

  The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis, www.franciscan-archive.org.

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• The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

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  Volunteer, Deeds, May

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• All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Cheer Up, Positive Thinking

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• God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

  Francis of Assisi

  Animal, Needs, Helping

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• The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.

  Francis of Assisi

  Effort

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• Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

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  Loss, Pet, Earth

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• What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

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  Silence, Action, Higher

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• Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Joy

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• We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

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  Prayer, Praying, Should

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• What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.

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  Death, Wine, Omnipotence

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• All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

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  Brother, Children, Father

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• The world is a great stage on which God displays his many wonders.

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  Angel, World, Wonder

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• A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Summer

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• You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

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  Attitude, Giving, Possession

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• While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

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  Peace, Passion, Heart

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• Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use words.

  Francis of Assisi

  Use, Ifs

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• He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

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  Heart, Artist, Hands

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  By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.

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  Heart, Men, Dwelling

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”

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• Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

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  Spiritual, Perseverance, Prayer

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• Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

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  Brother, Integrity, Sibling

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

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  Religious, Peace, Men

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