God asks for our good will, a firm, genuine disposition to seize every opportunity of serving him (XI:357).

The Little Company strives to serve persons who are poor, the well-beloved of God (XI:349).

Let us acknowledge before God that the poor are our lords and masters and that we are unworthy of rendering them our little services (XI:349).

The ways of God are incomprehensible and hidden from the eyes of humans, who can’t understand them (XI:337).

O how fortunate we are to be in a Company that professes to run to the relief of the neighbor (XI:331).

The depravity of the ecclesiastical state is the principal cause of the ruin of God’s Church (XI:279).

God does nothing without some good purpose (XI:276).

Humility is in no way contrary to magnanimity (XI:273).

Let ask God to give the Company this spirit, this heart, this heart that causes us to go everywhere (XI:264).

Let’s be like that little peasant who was carrying a sock and, seeing his master kneel down to pray did the same, with his little sack on his back. When asked what he was doing, he said, “I’m asking God to do what you’re requesting of him; I’m a poor idiot who doesn’t know how to say anything to him, so I’m asking him to listen to you; I’d like to say to Him the things that you’re saying, but I can’t; so I’m offering Him whatever you’re saying to Him (XI:262).