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Francis of Assisi

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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI I have been all things unholy; if God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
ST FRANCIS ASSISI If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in cou...
RAMAKRISHNA I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the g...
JUNIOR SEAU Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
BEN CARSON Love can hurt sometimes. Sometimes the things that make you happy can bring you sadness. But you hav...
CAITLYN K I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
ANONYMOUS I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
BIBLE Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 Where there is fea...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 Be not afraid that t...
UGOLINO OF MONTEGIORGIO I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work t...
BETHENNY FRANKEL Felton has one of the best work ethics I have ever been around. If anyone can break both of them, it...
DAN EPSTEIN Wealth can only be multiplied through work.
SUNDAY ADELAJA One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
SIMONE WEIL I most definitely knows God is strong. If he were weak he would not have been able to hold me when I...
ESTHER EARL I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13
BIBLE If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promot...
GERMANY KENT He's a warrior. We've seen him play through all kinds of things, broken ankles, everything. If he ca...
KOY DETMER I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
HELEN KELLER I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God
HELEN KELLER I work Monday through Thursday, and have Fridays off. Lucky me.
ALAN DAWSON I can do ALL THINGS through Christ who empowers, enriches, equips, enlightens, energizes, recreates,...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
JULIA GILLARD It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you&...
TAYLOR LAUTNER He showed everyone that good things can happen to you if you work hard enough. I feel that if he can...
MARCUS LUCIANO Steve was my division commander. He helped me get through so much. He taught me how to prepare a bud...
CAPT. ALLAN ELKINS I feel like we can play with anyone if we do all the things that we know and work together as a team...
AMBER BOWMAN One of the greatest discoveries or me is that life could be predictable and I can determine my futur...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I think that just because you've been through an experience doesn't make you the ultimate ar...
PHIL KLAY Mr. Green told me, 'Willie, if you stay with me three or four years and learn all you can about this...
LARRY MARSHALL It's a lot of learning through God and learning through your faith that you can accept and learn to ...
KATHLEEN POLLACK God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way thro...
STEVEN WRIGHT To beat St. Francis, you have to go through the guards. I think they account for about 70 percent of...
JOE SUBOTICKI There might be a kid out there who has been through some bad things and maybe seeing me, someone who...
CARON BUTLER So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.
JIM BAKKER Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes thro...
ALEXIS OHANIAN When you yield yourself in complete and wholehearted obedience to God, He can do great things throug...
JIM GEORGE The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave a...
PETER KREEFT I've always been a hard worker and I get that from my mom, ... She never would take off of work. She...
DARRELL CAMPBELL I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can th...
BEN WHISHAW I'd never seen anyone work like Al. If there was a scene where his character was getting into a car,...
D.J. CARUSO I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through m...
CARRIE FISHER I've had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
GROUCHO MARX A lot of heart. There's so much I could have stopped dealing with at all. I could have rebelled, shu...
KRYSTAL THOMAS For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I ha...
RICHARD FORD If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my bi...
ROMAN POLANSKI Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
ROBERT BENCHLEY I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now...
LUIS SUAREZ I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I ...
JOHN PIPER Anybody with any maturity knows that an experienced Christian is more eager to have God use him than...
SAMUEL M. SHOEMAKER I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I ca...
MATT HOLLIDAY I can still do a lot better. I have been letting things that happen on the court get to me too much,...
JEFFREY SIMPSON Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.
CHRISTINA DODD Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of thei...
ABERJHANI I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is m...
ROMAN POLANSKI Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment...
ROBERT BENCHLEY I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice...
CARLI LLOYD We did some real good things. We had some peaks and valleys all through the tournament, but overall,...
BRAD SMITH You can see the fixes that have been done all through here.
LES HARDER Forgetting himself for a moment, Francis brought his hand out from under his frock in order to bless...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS We've obviously talked. My position here is the same. I just told him I want to make whatever contri...
JEFF REINEBOLD We've been working so hard because we know it's his last year and the road he's going to through, th...
ADAM ALIREZ Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE Compelling art to me is a name carved into a tree. Sometimes a rock soaring through a plate of glass...
BARRY MCGEE We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us
SUNDAY ADELAJA I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the e...
J. C. RYLE Why have anyone go through all that if you're still going to make the decision that he can't fight?
EVANDER HOLYFIELD If I managed to get through what I have, I can go through what I will.
MARIE-SUZANNE LABELLE (A.K.A MARIE-SUE) I lost my best friend two years ago and I was going through a lot of grief, so it was a huge struggl...
JENNIFER MYERS I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circu...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS You realize the limits of your body. The thing you don't want to do is freak out and swim hard. At s...
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CAN DüNDAR Divers have found there is no air left in the holds of the ship. That means sea water has filled the...
CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds.
CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive.
CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı
Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya!
CAN YüCEL The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be...
EUGENE KENNEDY There is no substitute really for learning about the world of work and being in the world of work. Y...
ALEXIS HERMAN Few cities have been more definitely impressed upon the imagination of the world than San Francisco,...
EDWIN MARKHAM She would always tell me, 'If I work hard, do good work, be loyal and fair, people are going to reco...
JOSEPH NORTON No work for grace. It can only be received through faith in Jesus Christ.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You too can buy greatness by converting your time into greatness through hard work.
SUNDAY ADELAJA She's one strong woman. If it were me, I'd be mad at the world. I don't know how she can go through ...
JAZZ COVINGTON I have gone through a lot of things, everything that you can imagine in life, but the best has been ...
SHAKIRA They are nice and have families. Many would like to work. They sometimes don't look or smell great, ...
CONNIE WILSON Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.

St. Francis of Assisi,
Canticle of the Sun
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Every day God proves to me that I can do it better than I ever imagined through Him.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could repl...
ANDREW TAYLOR STILL And though it was extremely difficult on every end I can truly say God brought me through.
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE People need encouragement and need support. People want to know they can work through this.
BOBBY MARTIN You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the m...
YOKO ONO Jesse is a virtual gold mine of information. He's been through the fire. He knows what works and doe...
KINKY FRIEDMAN This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm rea...
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FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON All beliefs are bald ideas.
FRANCIS PICABIA Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL