Francis of Assisi Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• 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

  Religious, Peace, Men

• God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

  Francis of Assisi

  Animal, Needs, Helping

• 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.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Children, Father

• 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

  Hurt, Humble, Animal

• Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the obedience of one's brother and makes a man subject to all the
  men of this world and not to men alone, but also to all beasts and wild animals, so that they may do with him whatsoever they will, in so far as it may be granted to them from above by the
  Lord.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Animal, Men

  Saint Francis of Assisi, Aeterna Press (1906). “Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi”, p.30, Aeterna Press

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