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It is no use walking anywhere to preach
unless our walking is our preaching.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Related topics: Spiritual Inspirational
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Above all the grace and the gifts
that Christ gives to his beloved
is that of overcoming self.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service,
to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
...
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your 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;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The River of Life has no judgments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- The Buddha
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause
for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift
its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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