Francis Quotes

“Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.”
― Francis Of Assisi

“ohonhonhonhon~”
― francis bonnefoy

“Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.”
― Francis Schaeffer

“I must tell you this, Maggie. Your letters are my lifeline. Your threat to stop them terrified me. Never stop writing to me, I implore you.”
― Theresa Breslin, Remembrance

“Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fogs in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Do you know the best thing about stars?'
'What?'
'They're all dead, but we can still see them. When we look up it's like we're looking at a million different memories, a million different versions of something that used to be. That's not romantic, either; it's just science.'
'It's a bit romantic,' I tried to argue.
'No, it's not.' she said. 'It's real, and that's what's important.”
― Matthew Crow

“Do you know the best thing about stars?”
“What?”
“They're all dead, but we can still see them. When we look up it's like we're looking at a million different memories, a million different versions of something that used to be. That's not romantic, either; it's just science.”
“It's a bit romantic,” I tried to argue.
“No, it's not.” she said. “It's real, and that's what's important.”
― Matthew Crow, The Brilliant Light of Amber Sunrise

“The real difference between Francis and Dominic, which is no discredit to either of them, is that Dominic did happen to be confronted with a huge campaign for the conversion of heretics, while Francis had only the more subtle task of the conversion of human beings.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There are two things in life that are sure, birth and death. And in between is basically a meaningless period of time that is as good as what you make out of it.”
― Francis Bacon