To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that.

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.