172 Quotes by Francis Of Assisi

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

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

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.

Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life to be lived, as light to be lit, as love is to be loved, as joy to be given, as peace to be spread.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

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. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life....

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.