Peace and Good Quotes

“Love never requires that we lie to ourselves about our actions or someone else’s.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“Francis of Assisi was one of the world’s greatest peacemakers.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“Forgive someone today, not necessarily because they deserve it but because you deserve to live without the anger you have directed at them that also festers in you.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“humility must be deeply rooted in honesty.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“the more honest we are with ourselves, the easier it is to resist this temptation.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“Francis understood well that poverty and simplicity were virtues essential to those who seek to do the work of God.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“the humble motivation is that God deserves better from that person”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“twenty-four Our Fathers for Matins and five for Lauds; for Prime, Terce, Sext, and None, for each of these, they are to say seven; for Vespers twelve and for Compline seven.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“Lauds (Morning Prayer) and Vespers (Evening Prayer).”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“Have mercy on me, O God” (Psalm 51)”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“God, be merciful to me, the sinner!”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“Two centuries after Francis, St. Bernardine of Siena (another Franciscan) became famous for preaching devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus as a way of moving people beyond selfish political or economic interests.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“Like St. Paul before him, Francis did not rely on eloquent words to convince people; both of them relied on the integrity of lives shaped by God’s grace.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“Satan has long been called “the father of lies.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“Be extra patient with one person today, beginning with yourself, not because doing so might change them but because that decision will point you in a better direction.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“Serving the poor required Francis to achieve victory over himself, a victory over the conventional wisdom of his times about who counts and who doesn’t. God’s grace opened for Francis a new world of what God was asking of him.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi

“Speak respectfully to everyone you meet today.”
― Pat McCloskey OFM, Peace and Good: Through the Year with Francis of Assisi