Francis of Assisi Quotes

Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world.

A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.

Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

I was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting out, "Here are the facts, here are the evidence."And I noted, for example, that both of them [Marco Rubio and Donald Trump] were relying on fabrications.

Life doesn't have to be hard, life is on your side.

When I was a missionary in London fifty years ago, my companion and I would shake hands in the morning and say to one another, 'Life is good'. Life in the service of the Lord is good. It is beautiful. It is rewarding.

My life shines with God's radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy