Sunday, November 28, 2010

Quotes From St. Francis

“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.”


“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.”


“For it is in giving that we receive.”


“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.”


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


“What we are looking for is what is looking.”


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


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


“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.”

“Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.”

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