💬 Quotes

"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the full and flowing bowl."

"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks."

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."

"A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts."

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him to himself."

"The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers."

"A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."

"All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts."

"Francis did not want to reform the Church by criticizing it from the outside; he wanted to renew it by living the Gospel in its most radical, humble form."

"For Francis, poverty was not merely a lack of possessions, but a way of clearing the heart so that it could be completely filled by God."

"The secret to Francis’s joy was his profound realization that he was not the owner of his life, but a brother to all of creation."

"Conversion for Francis was not a one-time event, but a lifelong process of 'beginning again' each day with greater humility."

"He saw the world not as a place to be rejected, but as a theater where the glory of God was constantly being revealed through the smallest of creatures."

"Peace was not just the absence of conflict for Francis; it was the active pursuit of reconciliation, rooted in the mercy he had so freely received."

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

"He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man sometime."

"Can't repeat the past?… Why of course you can!"

"Her voice is full of money."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."