Francis of Assisi
We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the worldCollection: Jesus
I therefore command all my Brothers, those living now and those to come in the future, to venerate the Holy Mother of God, whom we always implore to be our Protectress, to praise her at all times, in all circumstances of life, with all the means in their power and with the greatest devotion and submission.Collection: Mother
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.Collection: Madness
May the power of your love, Lord Christ, fiery and sweet as honey, so absorb our hearts as to withdraw them from all that is under heaven. Grant that we may be ready to die for love of your love, as you died for love of our love.Collection: Love
Who we are looking for is who is looking.Collection: Freedom
The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.Collection: Brave
And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord. And when It is sacrificed on the altar by the priest or borne anywhere, let all the people on bended knees render praise, glory and honor to the True and Living Lord God.Collection: Blood
Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial.Collection: Forgiving
As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence, we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come.Collection: Forgiveness
...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.Collection: Eye
What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself like this under the form of a little bread, for our salvation ...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.Collection: Humility
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.Collection: Sublime
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Father
There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.Collection: Men
Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.Collection: Jesus
I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence and honor for the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things, whether on earth or in heaven, have been brought to peace and reconciled with Almighty GodCollection: Jesus
Such was the will of the Father that his Son, blessed and glorious, whom he gave to us, and who was born for us, should by his own blood, sacrifice, and oblation, offer himself on the altar of the cross, not for himself, by whom "all things were made," but for our sins, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps.Collection: Father
A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Begging You
Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.Collection: Son
Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.Collection: Brother
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.Collection: Love You
God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.Collection: Wonderful
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.Collection: Attitude
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.Collection: Leadership
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.Collection: God
Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.Collection: Saint
You can show your love to others by not wishing that they should be better Christians.Collection: Christian
Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.Collection: Spiritual
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples.Collection: Children
It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.Collection: Beautiful
Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.Collection: Soul
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.Collection: Heart
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.Collection: Prayer
What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Brother
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.Collection: Self
Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.Collection: Hope
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.Collection: Hurt
Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use words.Collection: Use
When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.Collection: Pain
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.Collection: God
The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.Collection: Hands
It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.Collection: Giving
All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.Collection: Giving
Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.Collection: Mean