Top 1200 Saint Francis Of Assisi Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I really want to fight this big scary guy, Francis Ngannou.

Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.

At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

I love Disclosure. Dillon Francis. Bauuer. Flosstradamus. I listen to a lot of different genres.

There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.

I'm no saint.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

I, Joseph Francis Buck, became a hair-plug addict.

I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.

but do i need to say anything?" sophie asked. "do i need to learn any words?" "like what?" saint-germain said. "well, when you lit up the eiffel tower, you said something that sounded like eggness" "ignis" the count said. "latin for fire. no, you don't need to say anything." "then why did you do it, then?" sophie asked. saint-germain grinned. "i just thought it sounded cool.

I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time - Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis.

I think [Pope] Francis intends to forge ahead with his reform agenda.

The usual Republican suspects lined up to side with Trump, chastizing Pope Francis for insinuating that the candidate isn't Christian.

Pope Francis also I think was really pivotal in sort of sanctioning and giving that important cosign to the opening of Cuba.

I'm far from a saint.

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but not her life. When she came to the National Prayer Breakfast and lectured President Clinton about abortion, he had nothing to say to her. He can't argue with a saint. It's too bad there isn't an easier way, because becoming a saint is not the easiest thing in the world. It's much easier to become an apologist or a philosopher or a theologian.

I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.

Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.

To be a saint is to be yourself.

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

I did a film called 'The Escape Artist' for Francis Coppola. I had the title role.

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

I'm really encouraged by Pope Francis, because I think his attitude is totally laudable.

[Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

Such a Saint, such an offering.

Pope Francis is not the first religious leader who has endorsed evolution and the Big Bang, but he is certainly one of the most influential.

[Pope Francis] has felt the mercy of God in his own life and wants to share that experience with others.

At one congressional hearing, Bishop Francis Kalabat complained that administration officials are overlooking what's happening to his fellow Chaldean Christians.

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.

I'm definitely not a saint.

My father was a saint. I'm not.

I'm hardly a saint.

I used to be a huge fan of Francis Ford Coppola.

[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company.

Deborah Francis-White makes everything better in my opinion.

It is fascinating to see how much Pope Francis relies on the work of the bishops in the Synods.

Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

It's pretty much what a lot of committed Catholics are making of [Pope Francis]. They're thrilled, they're refreshed, they think it's a breath of fresh air.

I'm a huge admirer of Pope Francis and everything he stands for. I think he's an incredibly connected spiritual and authentic being.

Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.

[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.

[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.

When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them to the documents of the II Vatican Council, I cannot help being bewildered. For what was condemned as heresy in 1906 was proclaimed as what is and should be from now on the doctrine and method of the Church. In other words, the modernists of 1906 were, somewhat, precursors to me. My masters were part of them. My parents taught me Modernism. How could Saint Pius X reject those that now seem to be my precursors?

I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic.

We've heard some things from Pope Francis that are not fully supportive of free enterprise capitalism. That should be a problem from an American perspective.