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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. - St. Francis Quotes

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. - St. Francis Quotes

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Anger

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. - St. Francis Quotes

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

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. - St. Francis Quotes

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.

Cute Love Feelings Love Sweet Love

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength - St. Francis Quotes

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. - St. Francis Quotes

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Swiss Clergyman

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. - St. Francis Quotes

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Courage Swiss Clergyman

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. - St. Francis Quotes

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Peace Swiss Clergyman

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. - St. Francis Quotes

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. - St. Francis Quotes

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Angels Swiss Clergyman

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed. - St. Francis Quotes

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Heart

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. - St. Francis Quotes

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Reputation Swiss Clergyman

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things. - St. Francis Quotes

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

Swiss Clergyman

Be who you are and be that well. - St. Francis Quotes

Be who you are and be that well.

Swiss Clergyman

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone. - St. Francis Quotes

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Enemies Swiss Clergyman

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as experience shows that the callosity formed around a broken bone makes it stronger than before. - St. Francis Quotes

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as experience shows that the callosity formed around a broken bone makes it stronger than before.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. - St. Francis Quotes

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Swiss Clergyman

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust - St. Francis Quotes

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust

Anger

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions. - St. Francis Quotes

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Food Food And Eating

The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife. - St. Francis Quotes

The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily! - St. Francis Quotes

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily!

Love

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children. - St. Francis Quotes

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

Circumstances Sex

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly. - St. Francis Quotes

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew - - St. Francis Quotes

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

Courage Patience

Do not wish to be anything except what you are. - St. Francis Quotes

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Love Quote of the Day Self-love

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not 'What a lovely sermon' but, 'I will do something!' - St. Francis Quotes

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not 'What a lovely sermon' but, 'I will do something!'

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew - - St. Francis Quotes

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew -

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. - St. Francis Quotes

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

Example Italian Saint

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - St. Francis Quotes

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

For it is in giving that we receive. - St. Francis Quotes

For it is in giving that we receive.

Giving Italian Saint

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. - St. Francis 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.

Compassion Italian Saint

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

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

Heart Italian Saint

What we are looking for is what is looking. - St. Francis Quotes

What we are looking for is what is looking.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. - St. Francis Quotes

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

God Italian Saint

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. - St. Francis Quotes

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

Gifts Italian Saint

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

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

God Italian Saint

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

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

Italian Saint Love

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. - St. Francis Quotes

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

Enemies Italian Saint

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. - St. Francis Quotes

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

Charity Italian Saint Wisdom

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. - St. Francis Quotes

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

God Italian Saint

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice. - St. Francis Quotes

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Progress Swiss Clergyman

Where there is injury let me sow pardon. - St. Francis Quotes

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Injury Italian Saint

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love. - St. Francis Quotes

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

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. - St. Francis Quotes

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.

You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do - St. Francis Quotes

You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do

God

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. - St. Francis Quotes

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.

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. - St. Francis Quotes

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.

Conscience Italian Saint

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