Writings
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“The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.”
“Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.”
“Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.”
Source: Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi
“Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!”
“For it is in giving that we receive.”
Source: St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers
“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.”
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”
“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”
“Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.”
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
Source: Francis and Clare: The Complete Works
“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.”
“It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.”
“Gold hath no lustre of its own. It shines by temperate use alone.”
“Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.”
Source: The Little Flowers of St. Francis: The Mirror of Perfection; The Life of St. Francis
Source: Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi
“There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.”
“You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.”
Source: The Little Flowers of St. Francis: The Mirror of Perfection; The Life of St. Francis
“You can show your love to others by not wishing that they should be better Christians.”
“All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.”
“Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.”