Let us remain lowly and be glad to be poor because when the world sees us debased in this way, it will despise us (VII:344).

Our Lord and Master calls all Missionaries to follow Him and through them the people whose salvation is entrusted to their care (VII:342-343).

Since God has been pleased to inspire you with this good work and to cause you to cast your eyes on us, His Divine Goodness wills also that we proceed in it simply and wholeheartedly (VII:236).

Every walk of life has its joys and sorrows; we have to drink both of them. Heaven suffers violence and we must renounce ourselves to follow Our Lord (VII:333).

If you are burdened by those vows it is because you do not submit your will to the yoke of Jesus Christ (VII:333).

By binding yourself entirely to God, Our Lord will bind Himself to you more closely than ever and will be your strength in weakness, your joy in sorrow and your steadfastness in times of indecision (VII:310).

Always tend toward lowliness, and love of your own abjection, and the desire for contempt and shame (VII:305).

Delay has not spoiled anything up until now, and I hope it will spoil nothing in the future (VII:304).

Remember that patience is as necessary to bear with ourselves as charity is to bear with the neighbor. May God be pleased to give us both (VII:291).

I ask Our Lord to be the Spirit of your spirit and the strength of you arm in order to destroy ignorance and sin, two monsters in God's Church (VII:271).