Animals Quotes

Every animal knows more than you do.

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl […]

I love St. Francis of Assisi, because he had a great love for animals. He used to talk with them and play with them – and scold them if they did harm to anybody. I love animals, too. Animals are such simple creations of God’s beauty.

But ask the beasts, and they will teach you. (Job 12:7)

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him. (1 Kings 13:27)

The mice which haunted my house were not the common ones, which are said to have been introduced into the country, but a wild native kind not found in the village. I sent one to a distinguished naturalist, and it interested him much. When I was building, one of these had its nest underneath the […]

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. (Matthew 10:16)

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own life, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality never fully understanding the necessary plan.

He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from his goats. (Matthew 25:32)