“We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.”
More from St. Francis of Assisi on Faith
“Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.”
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”
“Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.”
“If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.”
“It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.”
“Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.”
“We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.”
Others on Faith
Elizabeth George
30 quotes“Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.”
Saint Augustine
27 quotes“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.”
John Piper
27 quotes“All heroes are shadows of Christ”
Billy Graham
26 quotes“The world may argue against a creed, but it cannot argue against changed lives.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
24 quotes“When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available w...”
Rick Warren
24 quotes“Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness.”
A.W. Tozer
22 quotes“A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.”
John Calvin
21 quotes“There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.”
Charles Spurgeon
20 quotes“It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.”
C.S. Lewis
17 quotes“Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.”
Max Lucado
17 quotes“God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.”
Joel Osteen
16 quotes“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.”