13 Quotes by St. Francis of Assisi

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

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.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.

For it is in giving that we receive.

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

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

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

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.