All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.

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.

You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!

A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.

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