I hope that your past fidelity to these rules and your patience in waiting so long for them will obtain for you from the goodness of God the grace to observe them with greater ease in the future (XII:10).

Imitate the way Our Lord acted, who began to do before He began to teach (XII:5).

Poor persons are our portion (XII:4).

We, too, can have our holy faith respected by living according to God (XI:395).

Let's work, let's work, let's go to the assistance of the poor country people who are waiting for us (XI:391).

It is not enough to do good, to give alms… we must in addition do it in the Spirit of Our Lord, in the way Our Lord did it on earth, and purely for the glory of God (XI:389).

We will never be fit to do God's work if we do not have profound humility (XI:388).

If we do not have humility, we have nothing (XI:387).

Let us leave everything to serve God and the neighbor (XI:385).

Let us give ourselves wholeheartedly to God and offer ourselves to Him for whatever ministries in which His Divine Majesty may be pleased to engage us. Let us not be cowards any longer (XI:375).