St. Francis of Assisi

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

— St. Francis of Assisi

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.

— St. Francis of Assisi

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

— St. Francis of Assisi

For it is in giving that we receive.

— St. Francis of Assisi

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

— St. Francis of Assisi

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

— St. Francis of Assisi

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

— St. Francis of Assisi

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.

— St. Francis of Assisi

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

— St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

— St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

— St. Francis of Assisi

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.

— St. Francis of Assisi

Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

— St. Francis of Assisi

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

— St. Francis of Assisi

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

— St. Francis of Assisi