Franciscans Quotes
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A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.
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I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it.
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City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur
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In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.
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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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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.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
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Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.
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San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
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The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.
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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.
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As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
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Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have
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To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).
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From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.
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There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.
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I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.
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