If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.

I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives! They are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

And what are we doing if we are not doing God's Will?

[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over everything you do, giving each action inestimable value, even when things do not turn out as you wish.

[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.