Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
Italian Catholic Friar and Preacher, Founder of Men's Franciscan Order and Women's Order of Saint Clare and Lay Third Order of Saint Francis
"Where there is injury let me sow pardon."
"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith."
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
"Write that I bless all my brothers, who are in the order, and who will come until the end of the world... Since because of my weakness and the pain of my sickness I am not strong enough to speak, I make known my will to my brothers briefly in these three phrases, namely: as a sign that they remember my blessing and my testament, let them always love one another, let them always love and be faithful to our Lady Holy Poverty, and let them always be faithful and subject to the prelates and all clerics of Holy Mother Church."
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves"
"You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do."