Francis of Assisi Quotes - Page 2

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• It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.

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  Beautiful, Lessons, God Love

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• When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

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  Prayer, Praying, Praying To God

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• The one you are looking for is the one who is looking.

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• 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.

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  Brother, Integrity, Sibling

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• Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

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  Prayer, Trials, Patient

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• The journey is essential to the dream.

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  Dream, Journey, Essentials

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• God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

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  Wonderful, Weak, Absurd

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  O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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  Love You, Love Life, Generosity

  Francis of Assisi (2017). “St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers”, p.72, Paper & Ink

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• Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use words.

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  Use, Ifs

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• When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

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  Pain, Thinking, Suffering

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

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  Peace, Passion, Heart

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• Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

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  Hope, Truth, Errors

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

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  Heart, Men, Dwelling

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

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• 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 merit when they are borne patiently.

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  Soul, Weakness, World

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

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  Leadership, Faith, Spiritual

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• We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples.

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  Children, Home, Devil

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• Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.

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  Spiritual, Sublime, Dear God

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

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  Self, Giving, Catholic

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

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  Christian, Wish, Should

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• St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.

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  Funny, Learning, Humor

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Humble, Animal

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

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  Love, God, Christian

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• 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.

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  Hate, Men, Fasting

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

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  God, Faith, Inspiration

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• It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

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  Giving, Saint, Would Be

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