St. Francis of Assisi
For it is in giving that we receive.
St. Francis of AssisiNo one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
St. Francis of AssisiStart by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of AssisiIt is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
St. Francis of AssisiIt is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
St. Francis of AssisiTrue progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
St. Francis of AssisiWhere there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
St. Francis of AssisiLord, make me an instrument of your 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.
St. Francis of AssisiIf 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.
St. Francis of AssisiIt is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
St. Francis of AssisiLord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
St. Francis of AssisiGrant 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.
St. Francis of AssisiWhere there is injury let me sow pardon.
St. Francis of AssisiPreach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
St. Francis of Assisi
