St. Francis of Assisi

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. 

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

For it is in giving that we receive.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

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

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.