Saint Francis of Assisi Famous Quotes
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
"Preach the gospel at all times -- If necessary, use words."
"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."
For it is in giving that we receive.
Start by doing what's necessary then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
"Lord 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."
"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."
"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith."
Saint Francis of Assisi Quotations
"The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need."
Warren Bennis
"If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making"
Herbert Spencer
The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
Anon
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Norman Vincent Peale
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
Anon
"My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people."
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
Louise Nevelson
"Same old slippers, Same old rice, Same old glimpse of paradise."
William James Lampton
George May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. Fred And may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.
Blow
There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around you.
Maredith Close