St Francis Of Assisi Quotes

• 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.

  Francis of Assisi

  Funny, Learning, Humor

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• One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Rights, Talking

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.73, Routledge

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• I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. 'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, Errors, Doubt

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

  Alan Paton

  Use, Taught, Spirituality

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• Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Congratulations, Poverty, Cases

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

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• Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Thinking, Three

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.87, Penguin

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• The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

  Abbe Pierre

  School, Discovery, Transformation

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• The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Eye, Ducks

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