Occupation: Saint Birth: June 24, 1182 Death: October 3, 1226
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by h….
Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!.
God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection..
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible..
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows..
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….
What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: ….
It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things..
Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy..
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle..
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today..
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Whe….
Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patie….
All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in di….
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger nor Annoyance. Wh….
The world is a great stage on which God displays his many wonders..
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 ….
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer..
For it is in giving that we receive..
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart..