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I hope you find these St. Francis of Assisi Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is no use walking anywhere to preach
unless our walking is our preaching.
- St. Francis of Assisi
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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 of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- 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
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
...
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- attributed to 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
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- 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
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
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;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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