"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance."

"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

"For it is in giving that we receive."

"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."

"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love."

"Where there is injury let me sow pardon."

"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."

"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."

"Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging."

"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."

"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."

"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."

"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."

"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."

"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."