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...

The Church has no worse enemies than priests. It is through priests that heretics have prevailed, vice has reigned, and ignorance has set up its throne among the poor people (XII:76). [One of the ways St. Vincent served the poor was by reforming the clergy of his time]

How much our hearts should be on fire with love for this ministry of assisting poor people and for devoting ourselves earnestly to it because the need is so great and God expects this of us (XII:73).

Our mission is to make God known to poor persons; to announce Jesus Christ to them; to tell them that the kingdom of heaven is at hand and that it is for persons who are poor (XII:71).

The more perfectly we practice virtue, the more pleasing we are to God (XII:69).