Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)

Graham Faulkner: St. Francis of Assisi

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• St. Francis of Assisi : If the purpose of life is this loveless toil we fill our days with, then it is not for me.

• St. Francis of Assisi : Father! I wanna share the joy with you. Our treasures are in heaven not here on earth, don't be a slave of these! Throw it all away! Do as I do, it's so simple, be free!

• St. Francis of Assisi : [to the pope's guard]  No, not him. He is not with us! Tell him, Paolo, you are not with us.

  Bernardo : Tell him!

  Paolo : I am with them.

• 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.

• St. Francis of Assisi : We are all poor in the eyes of our Lord.

• St. Francis of Assisi : Is there any man among you, who, by anxious thought can add a minute to his life? Or a foot to his height? Why the concern for your riches? Consider how the lilies grow in the fields. They do not work nor spin. Yet even Solomon, in all his splendor, was not attired like one of these. How little faith you have.

• 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.

• Bernardo : I want to help you.

  St. Francis of Assisi : Words, words Bernardo. There was a time when I believed in words.

• St. Francis of Assisi : Come and let yourselves be built as living stones into the spiritual temple.

• 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.

• 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.

• St. Francis of Assisi : This is my death mask.

• St. Francis of Assisi : What have the judges of men to do with me. God is my only judge!

  Consul : Unfortunately, he isn't around to help us out.

• St. Francis of Assisi : When you wanted your wife to speak like you, why didn't you marry the thick headed butcher's daughter?

• St. Francis of Assisi : What shall we do with the money we will make out of this war? Have you thought about that?

  Pietro Di Bernardone : Aah! A true son of his father, hey Pica!