Franciscans Quotes:

To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

topic: Feet, Hackney, Franciscans

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

- Francis of Assisi

source: President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Take Nothing For Granted, Inspirational Achievement

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

- Francis of Assisi

source: The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis, www.franciscan-archive.org.

topic: Love, Peace, Hatred, Love And Hate, Joy God

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

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Leadership, Faith, Spiritual, Preaching The Gospel, Necessary Use

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

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Peace, Passion, Heart, Peace And Harmony, Peace Harmony

Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

- Francis of Assisi

source: Attributed to Francis of Assisi in Alf Droy "The Lord is my Shepherd" (p. 84), 1999.

topic: Faith, Christian, Spiritual, Preaching The Gospel, Necessary Use

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

- Francis of Assisi

topic: God, Faith, Historical, Franciscans

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

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Love, Fear, Ignorance, Inspirational Charity, Charity And Giving

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

- Francis of Assisi

topic: No Regrets, Enemy, Doe, Benefactors, Franciscans

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.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Order, Names, Sublime, Patrimony, Franciscans

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

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Love, Being Alone, Godly, Our Lord, Love Advice

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

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Self, Giving, Catholic, Franciscans

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.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Religious, Peace, Animal, Inspirational Animal, Kindness To Animals

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

- Francis of Assisi

topic: God, Faith, Inspiration, Friars, Franciscans

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

- Richard Rohr

topic: Who I Am, Enough, Protect, Franciscans

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

- Richard Rohr

topic: Meditation, Forgiving, Want, God Forgives, Franciscans

Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

- Benedict Joseph Labre

topic: Thinking, Flames, Trying, Franciscans, Mortal Sin

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it.

- Rich Mullins

topic: Brother, Not Sure, Franciscans

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.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Men, Order, Giving, Franciscans

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Madness, Injury, Pardon, Pardon Me, Franciscans

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear

- Gavin Newsom

topic: Mean, Doe, Uncertain Times, Franciscans

"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much."

- Maximilian Kolbe

topic: Brother, Knights, Important, Institute, Franciscans

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.

- Kenneth R. Miller

source: "Science And Religion: Incompatible?" by Science And Religion: Incompatible?, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

topic: Keys, People, Understanding, Belgians, Franciscans

As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected

- Gavin Newsom

topic: Hard Work, Men, Cities, Franciscans, Housing

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

- Herb Caen

topic: San Francisco, Heaven, Doe, Franciscans

My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

- John Fugelsang

topic: Mom, Mother, Jesus, Franciscans

I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.

- Tom Cruise

topic: Kids, Years, Frustrated, Franciscans, Seminary

Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

- Stella Benson

source: Stella Benson (1922). “The Poor Man”

topic: Writing, San Francisco, Franciscans

if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, even loyalists like me experiencing spasms of disillusionment, should be taken for refresher courses. The tides of all-American conformity beat vainly against the San Franciscan rock.

- Jan Morris

topic: Taken, Rocks, San Francisco, Loyalists, Public Image

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

- Herb Caen

topic: Self, Smugness, Satisfaction, Franciscans

In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.

- Ernst Toller

source: Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

topic: Quiet, Kind, Silent, Franciscans

San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.

- Robert Redford

topic: Beautiful, Cities, San Francisco, Franciscans, Beautiful Places

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have

- Gavin Newsom

topic: Community, Tree, Streets, Franciscans

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

- Gavin Newsom

topic: Beautiful, Jewels, Cities, Franciscans, Beautiful City

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

- George Weigel

source: Source: eppc.org

topic: Might, Way, Add, John Paul, Franciscans

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur

- Gavin Newsom

topic: Loss, Government, Order, City Government, Franciscans

A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

- Maya Angelou

source: Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.210, Random House

topic: Country, Fighting, Son, Iwo Jima, Franciscans