Francis of Assisi Quotes

I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.

He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

The Son of God, prompted by the same infinite love, laid aside his divine glory and mode of existence, emptied himself exchanged the form of God for the form of a servant, humbled himself and became obedient, even unto the death of the cross.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.

Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

When you realize that every breath is a gift from God. When you realize how small you are, but how much he loved you. That he, Jesus, would die, the son of God himself on earth, then you...you just weep.

If God was willing to wrap himself in rags and drink from a mother's breast, then all questions about his love for us are off the table.

It’s not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it’s those who humble themselves.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

Jesus humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary's finger. The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier. Why? Because that's what love does. It puts the beloved before itself.

Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be known or admired by others, but wishes to plunge from himself into himself, to become nothing, as if he had never been born. When he is completely hidden to himself in himself, he is completely with God

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

Jesus is God but he humbled himself to walk with us. He is our friend, our brother.

Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus

There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.

To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death.