Where there is hate, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- St Francis of Assisi, ( 1182-1226), Italian religious leader; He has been called the greatest of all Christian saints; founded Franciscans, 1209; often depicted preaching to birds.