Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today”
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.
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
For it is in giving that we receive. “Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.”
“Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.”
“Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.”
“O Divine Master, grant that I may not 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 that we are born to eternal life.”
“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”