We will always be ready to render service in the way our Rule allows: to go and instruct poor country folk, hear their general confessions, reconcile them with one another, settle their disputes, and organize assistance for the poor who are sick corporally as well as spiritually, by establishing the Confraternity of Charity (V:373).

Young plants cannot produce fruits too soon, and if they do, wise gardeners pluck them off and unburden them of them (V:361).

I am no longer good for anything but to make up for lost time and prepare myself for the judgment of God. How happy I will be if I can find favor in His sight (V:343).

How I wish that the members of the Mission who are together would do everything in conjunction with one another! This is how friends act, and how much more so should two brothers who live together (V:333).

We must humble ourselves in our poverty (V:329).

Let us give ourselves to God as best we can, expecting only trials and sufferings from our own men, with perfect assurance that they will not be lacking to us if we are faithful to seeing that the Rules and holy customs of our vocation are observed (V:324).

Consider before God whether the aversions some persons have toward the vows do not spring from human nature, which is always seeking freedom (V:321).

As far as poverty is concerned the Church instructs that, after using what they need for food and clothing, they should give the surplus to the poor (V:320).

It is a maxim of the saints that, when, after much prayer and consultation, action has been taken in an important matter involving the glory of God and the welfare of the Church, it must be believed that it is God’s will that this be done (V:316).

Now the state most pleasing to God is that of perfection, the one Our Lord embraced on earth and has the Apostles embrace it. It consists, among other means, of living in poverty, chastity, obedience and stability in one’s vocation (V:315).