St. Francis Quotes

• St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Creation
  • Lives
  • Healer

• Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Heaven
  • Letters
  • Daughters

• Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Job
  • Wisdom
  • Leadership