František z Assisi citáty

„Svätá múdrosť zmätie satana a všetky jeho zloby.“

„Pane, urob ma nástrojom Tvojho pokoja. Tam, kde je nenávisť, nech rozsievam lásku.“

„Čistá, svätá jednoduchosť sa vymyká všetkej múdrosti tohto sveta a múdrosti tela.“

„Kde je láska a múdrosť, tam nie je strach ani nevedomosť.“

„Ani všetka temnota na svete nedokáže uhasiť svetlo jednej sviečky.“

„Jedna kvapka čistej lásky je ušľachtilejšia ako more vedomostí.“

„Pamätaj si, že keď opustíš tento svet, nemôžeš si vziať so sebou nič, čo si získal, iba to, čo si dal: plné srdce obohatené úprimnou službou druhým, láskou, obetavosťou a odvahou.“

„Láska nie je milovaná.“

„Lepšie je múdro mlčať, ako dokazovať pravdu bez lásky.“

„Štipka zbožnosti je hodna viac ako metrák učenosti, kvapka pravej lásky viac ako celé more vedomostí.“

„Počujte, bratia moji, ak je Panna Mária taká uctievaná, čo je správne, lebo nosila Ježiša vo svojom najsvätejšom lone, ak je uctievaný hrob, v ktorom Pán krátko spočíval, aký svätý, spravodlivý a hodný musí byť ten, kto ho berie do svojich rúk, prijíma ho do srdca a do úst a podáva ho iným, aby ho prijali?!“

„Srdce jediného človeka je také veselé, že môže obsiahnuť bolesť všetkých ľudí.“

„Srdce býva v človeku vedľa duše, ale po celý život s ňou neudržiava dobré susedské vzťahy.“

„Ó, Pane, v tvojich rukách som bezpečný. Keď ty ma držíš, nemusím sa báť ničoho. Neviem nič o budúcnosti, ale dôverujem v teba.“

„Človek je iba tým, čím je pred Bohom, nič viac a nič menej.“

„Boh je radosť. Preto si postavil slnko pred svoj dom.“

„V tomto svete som už mŕtvy.“

„Je čudná vec slúžiť Bohu a mať smutnú a zádumčivú tvár.“

„Môj Boh a moje všetko.“

„Mojou najlepšou obranou proti všetkým intrigám a úskokom nepriateľa je duch radosti.“

„Kto prestal milovať, nemá už síl niesť ďalej bremeno.“

„Človek je verným obrazom Boha, v ktorom chce Boh byť uctievaný kvôli samému sebe.“

“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today”

“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.”

“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”

“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;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

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 in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.”

“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”

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

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

“True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.”

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

“Let every man abide in the art or employment wherein he was called. And for their labor they may receive all necessary things, except money. … Let none of the brothers, wherever he may be or whithersoever he may go, carry or receive money or coin in any manner, or cause it to be received, either for clothing, or for books, or as the price of any labor, or indeed for any reason, except on account of the manifest necessity of the sick brothers. For we ought not to have more use and esteem of money and coin than of stones. And the devil seeks to blind those who desire or value it more than stones. Let us therefore take care lest after having left all things we lose the kingdom of heaven for such a trifle. And if we should chance to find money in any place, let us no more regard it than the dust we tread under our feet.”

“Praise and bless my Lord, and give thanks, and serve him with great humility. Amen.”

“For it is in giving that we receive.”

“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.”

“We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.”

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

“Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.”

“We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.”

“Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.”

“What we are looking for is what is looking.”

“And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.”

“Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.”

“…"Yes, the true servant unceasingly rebukes the wicked, but he does it most of all by his conduct, but the truth that shines in his words, by the light of his example, by all the radiance of his life." (1989) The Road to Assisi, Sabatier as edted by Sweeney, pg 143.”

“Be praised, my Lord, through Brothers Wind and Air, and clouds and storms, and all the weather, through which you give your creatures sustenance.”

“Be praised, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens you have made them, precious and beautiful.”

“Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings the day; and you give light through him. And he is beautiful and radiant in all his splendor! Of you, Most High, he bears the likeness.”

“Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.”

“Hail, queen wisdom! May the Lord save thee with thy sister holy pure simplicity!
O Lady, holy poverty, may the Lord save thee with thy sister holy humility!
O Lady, holy charity, may the Lord save thee with thy sister holy obedience!”