Francis of Assisi Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

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

“It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.”

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

“Where there is injury let me sow pardon.”

“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.”