Best Franciscans Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, even loyalists like me experiencing spasms of disillusionment, should be taken for refresher courses. The tides of all-American conformity beat vainly against the San Franciscan rock.”

Ifs Should States America Courses United United States Taken Rocks Style Lovers Beats Like Me Conformity Tides San Francisco Disillusionment Franciscans Public Image Loyalists

Author:Jan Morris

“Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.”

Writing Productions San Francisco Franciscans

Book:The Poor Man

Source: The Poor Man

“I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.”

Years Kind Kids Study Extremes Priests Frustrated Seminary Franciscans

Author:Tom Cruise

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

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Author:Francis of Assisi

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

Use Christian Spiritual Religion Faith Religious Catholic All Time Franciscans Preaching The Gospel Necessary Use Proclaiming The Gospel

Author:Francis of Assisi

“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.”

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

Ifs Has Beens God Faith All Things Historical Franciscans

Author:Francis of Assisi

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

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

Heart Humanity Passion Peace Tradition Catholic Lips Careful Be Careful Being At Peace Peace And Harmony Peaceful World Proclaiming Achieving Peace Peace Of Heart Peace Harmony Franciscans

Author:Francis of Assisi

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

Use Inspiration Spiritual Faith Leadership Walking Catholic Christian Inspirational Guidance Preaching Franciscans Preaching The Gospel Necessary Use

Author:Francis of Assisi

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

Love Might Christian Lord Grants Godly Our Lord Being Alone Nephew Love Advice Franciscans

Author:Francis of Assisi

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

Love Fear Ignorance Charity Avarice Fundraising Giving To Charity Charity And Giving Inspirational Charity Charity And Love Franciscans Ignorance And Fear Fundraising For Charity

Book:Francis and Clare: The Complete Works

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.”

Giving Self Christ Grace Awareness Overcoming Catholic Beloved Stubborn Franciscans

Author:Francis of Assisi

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

Doe Enemy Harm Betrayed Complacency No Regrets Benefactors Franciscans

Author:Francis of Assisi

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

Looks God Inspiration Faces Faith Christian Inspirational Chill Fitting Commitment To God Cheerfulness Gloomy Intimacy With God Servant Of God Friars Franciscans Not Fitting Deacons

Author:Francis of Assisi

“Where there is injury let me sow pardon.”

Let Me Madness Injury Pardon Pardon Me Franciscans

Author:Francis of Assisi

“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.”

Doe Order Names Poverty Sun Glory Treasure Grants Permit Sublime Begging Distinctive Franciscans Patrimony Begging You

Author:Francis of Assisi

“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.”

Ifs Men Giving Order Conscience Superiors Franciscans

Author:Francis of Assisi

“To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).”

Feet Franciscans Hackney

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

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

Brother Not Sure Franciscans

Author:Rich Mullins

“My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.”

Way Firsts Believe Mother Father Jesus Brother Grew Mom Husband Grew Up Exes Nun Franciscans

Author:John Fugelsang

“The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.”

Way Might Add Pope Emphasis Piety John Paul Periphery John Paul Ii Franciscans

Author:George Weigel

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

Enough Protect Prove Who I Am Being Yourself Clergymen I Am Who I Am Franciscans

Author:Richard Rohr

“A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“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.”

Want Matter God Religious Meditation Relationship Forgiveness Forgiving Rules Intimacy With God Communion With God Clergymen God Forgives Franciscans

Book:AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Source: AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“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.”

“"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."”

Ifs Said Important Half Too Much Brother Praying Activity Aim Spokes Priests Perpetual Founders Sacraments Knights Adoration Institute Other Half Franciscans

Author:Maximilian Kolbe

“City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur”

Helping Government Order Loss Cities Tragedy Property Emergencies Franciscans City Government

Author:Gavin Newsom

“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”

Men Made Hard Natural Cities Events Hard Work Prepared Disaster Protected San Francisco Mayors Franciscans

Author:Gavin Newsom

“San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate”

Knows World Beautiful Cities Edges Golden Gates Jewels Cities In The World Beautiful City Franciscans

Author:Gavin Newsom

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

Mean Doe Uncertain Franciscans Uncertain Times

Author:Gavin Newsom

“Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have”

Community Tree Streets Franciscans

Author:Gavin Newsom

“Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.”

Poverty Madness Treasure Grants Permit Sublime Begging Distinctive Franciscans Patrimony

Author:Francis of Assisi

“San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.”

World Should Beautiful Cities Proud San Francisco Places In The World Beautiful Places Franciscans

Author:Robert Redford

“In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.”

Kind Week Quiet Silent Monk Monasteries Franciscans

Book:I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller

Source: I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller

“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.”

People Firsts Bigs Understanding Roles Century Keys Method Foundation Mathematical Priests 20th Century Bangs Roger Advancing Scientific Method Belgians Franciscans

Author:Kenneth R. Miller