Francis of Assisi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.