(Perryville, MO: MMA, 1980)

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"Let us love God, but let it be at the expense of our arms and in the sweat of our brows."

"It is a good thing to induce others to exercise charity. To do so, is to practice
all virtues at once."

"We cannot better secure our happiness than by living and dying
in the service of the poor."

"The custom of some is to await sinners; that of our Company, is to
go in search of them."

"Give me a man of prayer, and he will be capable of
accomplishing anything."

"Blessed are they who spend their lives for the service of God."

"Let us no longer say: It is I, who have done this good work; because all good should be done in our Lord Jesus Christ."

"Oh, what a happiness for us missionaries to verify the presence of the Holy Spirit within the Church, by laboring for the instruction and sanctification of the poor."

"God does not so much regard the success of our efforts, as the charity that inspired them."

"If the love of God is a fire, zeal is its flame; if love is a sun, zeal is its ray."

"Poverty is the bond of religious communities; it is the bond that detaches them from earthly things and bonds them perfectly to God."