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Friar Franciscan Inspirational Quotes (107)

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All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.
Francis of Assisi
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Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!
Francis of Assisi
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3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?
William of Ockham
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My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting stars the song of birds in summer branches the sunrise on a winter's morning the name of everything we don't understand.
William of Ockham
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No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.
William of Ockham
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What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.
William of Ockham
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First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.
William of Ockham
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Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
William of Ockham
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God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.
William of Ockham
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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
William of Ockham
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Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
William of Ockham
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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
William of Ockham
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Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.
William of Ockham
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Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
William of Ockham
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Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.
William of Ockham
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Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.
Francis of Assisi
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The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.
Francis of Assisi
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...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.
Francis of Assisi
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Don't change the world, change worlds.
Francis of Assisi
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We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.
Anthony of Padua
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I have sinned against my brother the ass.
Francis of Assisi
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Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.
Francis of Assisi
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It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.
Francis of Assisi
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Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.
Anthony of Padua
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