Francis of Assisi
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.Collection: Wisdom
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.Collection: Inspirational
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.Collection: Inspirational
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.Collection: Men
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.Collection: Peace
For it is in giving that we receive.Collection: Christmas
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.Collection: Peace
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.Collection: Work
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.Collection: Love
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Men
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.Collection: Forgiveness
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.Collection: Wisdom
Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Waiting
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.Collection: Volunteer
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.Collection: Inspirational
God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.Collection: Animal
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.Collection: Loss
What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.Collection: Silence
The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.Collection: Effort
Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.Collection: Simple
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.Collection: Brother
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.Collection: Death
We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.Collection: Prayer
The world is a great stage on which God displays his many wonders.Collection: Angel
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artistCollection: Heart
St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.Collection: Funny
Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.Collection: Prayer
The journey is essential to the dream.Collection: Dream
Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.Collection: Children
Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.Collection: Heaven
I have sinned against my brother the ass.Collection: Brother
Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.Collection: Compassion
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.Collection: Death
Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.Collection: Rain
What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.Collection: Men
Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendours and bears likeness of you, Most High One.Collection: Beautiful
The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule, neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given me by the Lord.Collection: Life
Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.Collection: Mother
And just as He appeared before the holy Apostles in true flesh, so now He has us see Him in the Sacred Bread. Looking at Him with the eyes of their flesh, they saw only His Flesh, but regarding Him with the eyes of the spirit, they believed that He was God. In like manner, as we see bread and wine with our bodily eyes, let us see and believe firmly that it is His Most Holy Body and Blood, True and Living.For in this way our Lord is ever present among those who believe in him, according to what He said: "Behold, I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world."Collection: Believe
We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the Devil.Collection: Thinking
What you are looking for is what is looking.Collection: Inspirational
Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.Collection: Brother
Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and our own sins. Let us, then, consider what He has done for us, and what we have done against Him; let us call to mind our sins in detail, and His gracious benefits in like manner, remembering that whatever there is of good in us is not ours, but His, and then we need not be afraid of vainglory or of taking complacency in ourselves.Collection: Humble
For One in such a lofty position to stoop so low is a marvel that is staggering. What sublime humility and humble sublimeness, that the Lord of the Universe, the Divine Son of God, should stoop as to hide Himself under the appearance of bread for our salvation! Behold the humble way of God, my brothers. Therefore, do not hold yourselves to be anything of yourselves, so that you may be entirely acceptable to One Who gives Himself entirely to you.Collection: Brother
It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more . .. I know Christ, the poor crucified One.Collection: Mind