Simplicity converts everyone. (XI:259)

Let's be like that little peasant who was carrying a sack 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).