I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.

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.

Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.