Francis of Assisi Quotes

Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet sweetly; it was the Blessed Sacrament - it was the Lord Incarnate who was on the altar, who had come to visit and bless his people. It was the Great Presence, which makes a Catholic Church different from every other place in the world; which makes it, as no other place can be - holy.

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the eucharistic celebration, which is itself the Church's supreme act of adoration.

Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word...I would be so overpowered with a sense of God's Infinite Majestey, that I would be contrained to throw myself on the ground, and offer my soul as a blank in His hands, to write on it what He pleased.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.

My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.

Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When thou thinkest thyself farthest off from me, oftentimes I am nearest unto thee. When thou countest almost all to be lost, then oftentimes the greatest gain of reward is close at hand. All is not lost, when any thing falleth out contrary. Thou oughtest not to judge according to present feeling; nor so to take any grief, or give thyself over to it.

God's presence is all that matters.

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.

Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart

Every miracle brings the release of glory.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

We're part of God's much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God's Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It's your move.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.