Top 90 Francis of Assisi Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.”

— Francis of Assisi

52. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

53. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

54. “You can show your love to others by not wishing that they should be better Christians.”

— Francis of Assisi

55. “It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn’t give to someone in greater need than we are.”

— Francis of Assisi

56. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

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

— Francis of Assisi

58. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

59. “By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man’s heart and make a dwelling for himself there.”

— Francis of Assisi

60. “Hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.”

— Francis of Assisi

61. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

62. “All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.”

— Francis of Assisi

63. “Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.”

— Francis of Assisi

64. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

65. “If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.”

— Francis of Assisi

66. “Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.”

— Francis of Assisi

67. “Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.”

— Francis of Assisi

68. “Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.”

— Francis of Assisi

69. “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 world.”

— Francis of Assisi

70. “The tree of love its roots hath spread Deep in my heart, and rears its head; Rich are its fruits: they joy dispense; Transport the heart, and ravish sense. In love’s sweet swoon to thee I cleave, Bless’d source of love.”

— Francis of Assisi

71. “Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.”

— Francis of Assisi

72. “I have sinned against my brother the ass.”

— Francis of Assisi

73. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

74. “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 God.”

— Francis of Assisi

75. “A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.”

— Francis of Assisi

76. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

77. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

78. “Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light.”

— Francis of Assisi

79. “You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.”

— Francis of Assisi

80. “Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.”

— Francis of Assisi

81. “Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life to be lived, as light to be lit, as love is to be loved, as joy to be given, as peace to be spread.”

— Francis of Assisi

82. “You wanderer on the path! There is no path, only wandering”.”

— Francis of Assisi

83. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

84. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

85. “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.”

— Francis of Assisi

86. “Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial.”

— Francis of Assisi

87. “Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.”

— Francis of Assisi

88. “Preach the Gospel, if necessary use words.”

— Francis of Assisi

89. “There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.”

— Francis of Assisi

90. “Don’t canonize me too soon. I’m perfectly capable of fathering a child.”

— Francis of Assisi

91. “The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.”

— Francis of Assisi

92. “A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.”

— Francis of Assisi

93. “A man sins who wishes to receive more from his neighbor than he is himself willing to give to the Lord God.”

— Francis of Assisi

94. “Preach always. If necessary, use words.”

— Francis of Assisi

95. “Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor worry.”

— Francis of Assisi

96. “Upon this, Bernard went and sold all that he had. Now he was very rich, and with great joy he distributed his wealth to widows, to orphans, to prisoners, to monasteries, to hospitals, and to pilgrims, in all which St Francis assisted him with prudence and fidelity.”

— Francis of Assisi