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If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
— Francis Atterbury
I cannot imagine a Christian who does not know how to smile. May we joyfully witness to our faith.
— Pope Francis
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
— Francis Bacon
Some think, excuse me if I use the word, that in order to be good Catholics, we have to be like rabbits - but no.
— Pope Francis
Time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
...to think biblically rather than conventionally, to be part of a body where radical living is becoming the norm.
— Francis Chan
Man remembers and combines but does not create.
— Richard Francis Burton
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
— Francis Bacon
Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.
— Pope Francis
Long works are too often like long sermons which end in fatigue.
— Francis Grierson
Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.
— Pope Francis
Everyone must be a missionary, everyone can hear that call of Jesus and go forth and proclaim the Kingdom!
— Pope Francis
Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.
— Pope Francis
A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.
— Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
— Brendan Francis Brown
The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying.
— Francis Bacon
It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.
— Pope Francis
The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur.
— Pope Francis
When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive?
— Sage Francis
If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the Sacraments.
— Pope Francis
The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.
— Pope Francis
Jesus is the one who brings God to us and us to God.
— Pope Francis
Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize.
— Pope Francis
Sunday is the Lord's Day. Let us find time to be with him.
— Pope Francis
If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy ...
— Jack Kerouac
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
— Francis Bacon
If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.
— Francis Bacon
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
— Francis Bacon
Let us ask Mary to help us fix our eyes intently on Jesus, to follow him always, even when this is demanding.
— Pope Francis
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
— Saint Francis De Sales
I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
— Francis Collins
I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
— Francis Chan
True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.
— Francis James Child
Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
— Francis Gray
The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.
— Pope Francis
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
— Francis Bacon
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
— Francis Bacon
I'm really encouraged by Pope Francis, because I think his attitude is totally laudable.
— Steve Coogan
Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian
— Pope Francis
Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.
— Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis
It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
— Saint Francis De Sales
There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Because I'm the best fuck in the solar system. (Toreth)
— Manna Francis
Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
— Francis Maude
All is lost save honor.
— Francis I
I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.
— Pope Francis
You can't have Christ without the Church,
— Pope Francis
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.
— Francis Quarles
Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.
— Pope Francis
It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
— Francis Bacon
He measures our lives by how we love.
— Francis Chan
God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.
— Pope Francis
Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.
— Pope Francis
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
— Oscar Wilde
Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.
— Francis Schaeffer
My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
— Victoria Gotti
Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.
— Francis Thompson
That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
— Francis Schaeffer
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
— Francis Bacon
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
— Francis Crick
Putting one's parents out to pasture in a nursing home has very deep historical roots in Western Europe.
— Francis Fukuyama
One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.
— Francis Picabia
Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.
— Pope Francis
The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.
— Francis Quarles
For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.
— Pope Francis
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.
— Francis Stokes
The situation was saved; Brisbane was going to tell a story.
— Francis Marion Crawford
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
— Francis Bacon
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
— Francis Bacon
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.
— Pope Francis
In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly
— Pope Francis
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
— Pope Francis
I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.
— Pope Francis
Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.
— Pope Francis
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
— Francis Picabia
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
— Francis Alexander Durivage