Browsing Topic Best Friars Quotes

Fortune in men has some small diff’rence made,One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade,The cobbler apron’d, and the parson gown’d,The friar hooded, and the monarch crown’d.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced the friars to close down their stall, which was outside the Playboy mansion where they had been selling flowers. Said one friar, well, if it was anyone else we may have gotten away from it, but, unfortunately, only Hugh can prevent florist friars.

On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn’t keep in touch. They’re probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.

There is in man’s nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God’s grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

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

The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.

The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

Friar! What a strange name. I don’t remember having created such a thing!

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

The perpetrators of the Inquisition – the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions – were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God – popes, bishops, friars, and priests.

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. – Friar Tuck

Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar’s frock, and all shall be well again.

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

Despair makes priests and friars.

A friar who asks alms for God’s sake begs for two.

I want to be only a poor friar who prays – if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!