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Francis of Assisi Quotes
Italian
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Saint
1182 - 1226
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
Inspirational
You
Impossible
Doing
Necessary
Possible
Start
Suddenly
Then
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Francis of Assisi
You
Heart
Peace
Lips
Be Careful
Careful
Even
Fully
More
Proclaiming
While
Your
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
Francis of Assisi
Inspirational
Drive
Shadows
Single
Away
Enough
Many
Sunbeam
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
Man
Who
Conscience
He
Against
Although
Any
Dismissed
Give
Him
Obey
Order
Shall
Superior
Which
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Francis of Assisi
Love
Me
Peace
Hatred
Make
Instrument
Lord
Sow
Thy
Where
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
Francis of Assisi
World
Men
Humility
Pride
All Things
Holy
Things
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Francis of Assisi
Grace
Self
Overcoming
Above
Beloved
Christ
Gifts
Gives
His
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Francis of Assisi
Work
God
Me
He
Through
Anyone
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
God
You
Men
Will
Any
Compassion
Creatures
Deal
Exclude
Fellow
Fellow Men
Likewise
Pity
Shelter
Who
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
You
Your
Enemy
Harm
Does
Except
No-One
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
Francis of Assisi
Forgiveness
Pardoned
For it is in giving that we receive.
Francis of Assisi
Giving
Christmas
Receive
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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
Face
Look
Service
Chilling
Fitting
Gloomy
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
Francis of Assisi
Walking
Our
Preaching
Use
Preach
Anywhere
Unless
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Francis of Assisi
Love
Loved
Lord
Seek
Grant
Might
Much
To Love
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Francis of Assisi
Me
Where
Injury
Pardon
Sow
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi
Wisdom
Fear
Ignorance
Charity
Where
Neither
Nor
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
Me
Sun
Poverty
Name
Anything
Begging
Beneath
Distinctive
Does
Glory
Grant
Order
Other
Our
Own
Permit
Possess
Sign
Sublime
Than
Treasure
Your
I am the herald of the Great King.
Francis of Assisi
Great
King
I Am
Am
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.
Francis of Assisi
God
Me
Darkness
You
Abroad
Accordance
Act
All Things
Found
Glorious
Great
Holy
Jesus
Light
Lord
Lord Jesus
May
Mind
Only
Pray
Shed
Things
Thou
Thy
Your
Will
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
Francis of Assisi
Wisdom
Satan
Holy
His
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
Francis of Assisi
Wisdom
World
Simplicity
Pure
Flesh
Holy
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
Francis of Assisi
World
Poverty
Cares
Holy
Avarice
Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
Francis of Assisi
Charity
Holy
Fears
Diabolical
Temptations
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
Francis of Assisi
Son
Father
Blessed
Born
All Things
Altar
Blood
Cross
Done
Gave
Glorious
He
Himself
His
Made
Offer
Our
Own
Sacrificial
Should
Sins
Things
Through
Us
Victim
Were
Whom
Willed
Who
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
Francis of Assisi
World
Men
Will
Lose
Alms
Behind
Carry
Charity
Deserve
Give
Leave
Lord
Material
Material Things
Receive
Recompense
Reward
Them
Things
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
Francis of Assisi
Wise
Simple
Humble
Must
According
Flesh
Prudent
Pure
Rather
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
Francis of Assisi
God
Never
Who
Desire
Being
Every
Human
Human Being
Instead
Others
Ought
Over
Sake
Servants
Should
Submissive
Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.
Francis of Assisi
Beautiful
You
Light
Great
Bears
Brother
Creatures
Day
Give
He
High
Likeness
Lord
Most
Praised
Radiant
Sir
Splendour
Sun
Through
Us
Whom
Your
Who
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
Francis of Assisi
Moon
You
Stars
Precious
Bright
Fair
Heavens
Lord
Made
Praised
Sister
Them
Through
Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
Francis of Assisi
Beautiful
You
Light
Fire
Brother
He
Lord
Night
Playful
Praised
Robust
Strong
Through
Whom
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
Francis of Assisi
Mother
You
Flowers
Earth
Coloured
Fruits
Governs
Herbs
Lord
Mother Earth
Our
Praised
Producing
Sister
Sustains
Through
Us
Varied
Who
Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
Francis of Assisi
Die
Who
Sin
Those
Mortal
Woe
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