Francis of Assisi Quotes

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

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 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, It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

We are in this world to learn and embody compassion and love.

I love you,” she says. “I love you,” I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don’t deserve it at her expense.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

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

I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

You have to think with the heart.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.