Now I see that the Holy Spirit is guiding the Church since such care is taken in the instruction and salvation of poor village people (XI:29).

How beautiful it is to see poor people if we consider them in God and with the esteem in which Jesus Christ held them (XI:26).

We are to run to the spiritual needs of our neighbor as if we were running to a fire (XI:25).

Simplicity is a virtue that makes us go straight to God and to the truth (XI:24).

Let us bless and thank God for entrusting to us the care of these poor people, for in serving them we see and touch the extent and diversity of human misery (XI:19).

When a person has personally experienced his own weaknesses and trials, he is more sensitive to the weaknesses of others (XI:18).

God uses the most inferior materials for the extraordinary workings of His grace (XI:10).

Don't think that it's a small thing to be devoted to the relief of those in distress (XI:17).

Let us thank God for having given this Community the care of the mentally ill and the incorrigible (XI:17).

If we make poor use of God's graces by neglecting our primary duties, God will take these graces from us (XI:12).