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„Тот, кто работает руками — рабочий. Тот, кто работает руками и головой — мастер. Тот, кто работает руками, головой и сердцем — художник.“

—  Франциск Ассизский

„Господи, сделай меня проводником Твоего блага. Дай мне силы обращать ненависть в любовь, несправедливость — в милосердие, неверие — в веру, отчаяние — в надежду, тьму — в свет, печаль — в радость. О Божественный Повелитель, сделай так, чтобы я в первую очередь желал не быть утешенным, но утешать, не быть понятым, но понимать, не быть любимым, но любить. Ибо мы получаем, когда даем, и когда прощаем, нам прощается. Ибо только умирая, мы рождаемся для вечной жизни.“

—  Франциск Ассизский

„Наши поступки — это наше, последствия же их — дело небес.“

—  Франциск Ассизский

„И люби тех, которые так плохо поступают с тобою, и не желай другого от них, если Господь не судил иначе. Люби их так, как они есть, не требуя, чтобы они были лучшими христианами.“

—  Франциск Ассизский

„Зарабатывать деньги ради денег — это хуже, чем содомский грех.“

—  Франциск Ассизский

„Господи, дай мне посеять там, где раздоры, — согласие, где заблуждение, — истину, где сомнение, — веру, где отчаяние, — надежду.“

—  Франциск Ассизский

„Вся тьма в мире не может погасить свет одной свечи.“

—  Франциск Ассизский

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

—  Francis of Assisi

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

—  Francis of Assisi

„All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.“

—  Francis of Assisi

„…"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.“

—  Francis of Assisi

Disputed, Preach the gospel, and if necessary, use words.

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

—  Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun

Canticle of the Sun

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

—  Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun

Canticle of the Sun

„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.“

—  Francis of Assisi

„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.“

—  Francis of Assisi

Источник: The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

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

—  Francis of Assisi

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

—  Francis of Assisi

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

—  Francis of Assisi

„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.“

—  Francis of Assisi

Widely known as The Prayer of St. Francis, it is not found in Esser's authoritative collection of Francis's writings.
[Fr. Kajetan, Esser, OFM, ed., Opuscula Sancti Patris Francisci Assisiensis, Rome, Grottaferrata, 1978]. Additionally there is no record of this prayer before the twentieth century.
[Fr. Regis J., Armstrong, OFM, Francis and Clare: The Complete Works, New York, Paulist Press, 1982, 10, 0-8091-2446-7]. Dr. Christian Renoux of the University of Orleans in France traces the origin of the prayer to an anonymous 1912 contributor to La Clochette, a publication of the Holy Mass League in Paris. It was not until 1927 that it was attributed to St. Francis.
The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis, 2013-06-28, Renoux, Christian http://www.franciscan-archive.org/franciscana/peace.html,.
[Christian, Renoux, La prière pour la paix attribuée à saint François: une énigme à résoudre, Paris, Editions franciscaines, 2001, 2-85020-096-4].
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