And St. Francis added: “My dear and beloved Brother, the treasure of blessed poverty is so very precious and divine that we are not worthy to possess it in our vile bodies. For poverty is...

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

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

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.

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

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Keep a clear eye toward life’s end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God’s creature. What you are in his sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave...

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

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.

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

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;where there is hatred, let me sow love;when there is injury, pardon;where there is doubt, faith;where there is despair, hope;where there is darkness, light;and where there is sadness,...

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

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi,Canticle of the Sun

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

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

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

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today

And St. Francis said: ‘My dear son, 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...

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...

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

For it is in giving that we receive.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy 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,...

What each man is in Your eyes, thus he is, and no more.

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

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.