Franciscan Order Quotes

What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.

Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon'... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.

To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it.

Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.

I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.