Franciscans Quotes

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, God, Christian

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Leadership, Faith, Spiritual

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Peace, Passion, Heart

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• Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

  Francis of Assisi

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

  Attributed to Francis of Assisi in Alf Droy "The Lord is my Shepherd" (p. 84), 1999.

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

  Francis of Assisi

  God, Faith, Historical

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, Fear, Ignorance

  Saint Francis (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong, Ignatius C. Brady (1982). “Francis and Clare: The Complete Works”, p.35, Paulist Press

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

  Francis of Assisi

  No Regrets, Enemy, Doe

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• 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

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, Christian, Being Alone

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Self, Giving, Catholic

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• 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

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

  Francis of Assisi

  God, Faith, Inspiration

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• There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

  Richard Rohr

  Being Yourself, Who I Am, Enough

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• every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

  Richard Rohr

  Relationship, Forgiveness, God

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

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• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

  Francis of Assisi

  Sublime, Treasure, Poverty

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• Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Christian, Thinking, Flames

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• I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it.

  Rich Mullins

  Brother, Not Sure

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• 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

  Men, Order, Giving

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• Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

  Francis of Assisi

  Madness, Injury, Pardon Me

  Speech of Mother Teresa of Calcutta to the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, DC, www.priestsforlife.org. February 03, 1994.

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• But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear

  Gavin Newsom

  Mean, Doe, Uncertain Times

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• "My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much."

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Brother, Knights, Important

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• From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Keys, People, Understanding

  "Science And Religion: Incompatible?" by Science And Religion: Incompatible?, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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• As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected

  Gavin Newsom

  Hard Work, Men, San Francisco

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• I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

  Herb Caen

  San Francisco, Heaven, Doe

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