If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Meaning of the quote
God can use anyone to do good things, no matter who they are. Even a regular person like Saint Francis of Assisi, who was an Italian, believed that if God could work through him, then God could work through anyone. This means that anyone, no matter how ordinary they might seem, can be used by God to make a positive difference in the world.
About Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi was a 13th-century Italian mystic, poet, and Catholic friar who founded the Franciscan religious order. He was known for his devotion to poverty, animals, and the Eucharist, and is one of the most venerated figures in Christianity. Francis received the stigmata and arranged the first live nativity scene, cementing his legacy as a renowned and influential figure.
More quotes from Francis of Assisi
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
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.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
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.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
For it is in giving that we receive.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
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.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2-1226)