St. Francis of Assisi Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is no use walking anywhere to preach
unless our walking is our preaching.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service,
to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Above all the grace and the gifts
that Christ gives to his beloved
is that of overcoming self.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord Sayings
Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust.
- Psalm 18:2
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Chief Sayings
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
Man does not weave this web of life.
He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Heart Sayings
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Tears and laughter cleanse the heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
I am the painter of my heart.
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The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm Forbes
The heart is forever inexperienced.
- Henry David Thoreau
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
- Rumi
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Dance with a Light Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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