Francis of Assisi Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance.
  Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger nor Annoyance.
  Where there is Poverty and Joy, there is neither Cupidity nor Avarice.
  Where there is Peace and Contemplation, there is neither Care nor Restlessness.
  Where there is the Fear of God to guard the dwelling, there no enemy can enter.
  Where there is Mercy and Prudence, there is neither Excess nor Harshness.

  Francis of Assisi

  Ignorance, Humility, Dwelling

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”

• 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

  Begging You, Order, Names

• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

  Francis of Assisi

  Sublime, Treasure, Poverty

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