Let us strive to make ourselves interior men and women so that Jesus Christ may reign in us (XII:111).

May He keep our lamps lit in His presence and our hearts always tending to His love and always devoted to clothing ourselves ever more with Jesus Christ (XII:97).

O Savior, teach us to seek our pleasure in you, to love what You loved and to be pleased with what pleases You (XII:95).

Let us become interior men and women, forming a strong holy attachment to the service of God (XII:82).

Let us give ourselves to God so that He will grant us the grace to stand fast (XII:82).

This Company is from God because people see that it hastens to the relief of the most pressing and neglected needs (XII:80).

May we see things as they are, as works of God which God has entrusted to us (II:80).

God, grant us the grace to see things with the same eye as you do (XII:78).

If Jesus welcomed the mentally ill and fanatics, why shouldn't we? (XII:78).

If there are any among us who think they are in the mission to evangelize the poor people but not to alleviate their sufferings, to take of their spiritual needs but not their temporal ones, I reply that we have to help them and have them assisted in every way, by us...