Francis of Assisi Quotes

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Work at being a humble person.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

We should be living a life of purity.

I recommend to you holy simplicity.

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

My aim is just to remain as humble and as godly as I can be.

I just wanted to be angelic and pure and nice and kind.

O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.