Francis of Assisi Quotes

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.

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Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty, he became a beggar and an itinerant preacher.
One of the most venerated figures in Christianity, Francis was canonized by Pope Gregory IX on 16 July 1228. He is commonly portrayed wearing a brown habit with a rope tied around his waist, featuring three knots symbolizing the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
In 1219, Francis went to Egypt in an attempt to convert the sultan Al-Kamil and put an end to the conflict of the Fifth Crusade. In 1223, he arranged for the first live nativity scene as part of the annual Christmas celebration in Greccio. According to Christian tradition, Francis received the stigmata during the apparition of a Seraphic angel in a religious ecstasy in 1224.
Francis is associated with patronage of animals and the environment. It became customary for churches to hold ceremonies blessing animals on his feast day of 4 October, which became World Animal Day. Francis was noted for his devotion to the Eucharist. Along with Catherine of Siena, Francis was designated patron saint of Italy. He is also the namesake of the city of San Francisco.
17 September is the feast of Francis' stigmatization.

I am the herald of the Great King.

Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the...

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi,Canticle of the Sun

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

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

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

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

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

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

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

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