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Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

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.

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.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

I am the herald of the Great King.

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.

The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.

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.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.

Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.

Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Space is the breath of art.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

The truth is more important than the facts.

An idea is salvation by imagination.