Fratello sole, sorella luna Quotes

Bishop Guido: So what do you want?
St. Francis of Assisi: I want to be happy, I want to live like the birds in the sky. I want to experience the freedom and beauty that they experience.

Movie: Fratello sole, sorella luna
Paolo: You just saunter out of your house one fine morning and pluck God out of the air as easily as catching a butterfly. It's all too simple.
St. Francis of Assisi: If what you say is true then the Holy Father will point out errors in my faith

Movie: Fratello sole, sorella luna
Pietro Di Bernardone: He's ill! He's come back from the war because he ill. He's not a coward!

Movie: Fratello sole, sorella luna
St. Francis of Assisi: I want to be a beggar! Yes, yes a beggar. Christ was a beggar, His Holy Apostles were beggars. I want to be as free as they are.
Pietro Di Bernardone: But Your Grace, even beggars show respect to their fathers!
St. Francis of Assisi: I'm not your son anymore. What is born of flesh is flesh, what is born of spirit is spirit. Now, I'm born again.

Movie: Fratello sole, sorella luna
St. Francis of Assisi: [to Giocondo] We are not a regiment of priests for whom the sacred vow of chastity is the discipline. We are just a band of men who simply love God, each according to his own capacity.

Movie: Fratello sole, sorella luna
St. Francis of Assisi: If the purpose of life is this loveless toy we fill our days with, then it is not for me.

Movie: Fratello sole, sorella luna