Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.

Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use words.

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Jesus is happy to come with us, as truth is happy to be spoken, as life to be lived, as light to be lit, as love is to be loved, as joy to be given, as peace to be spread.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

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.