Gold Hath No Lustre Of Its Own.

It Was Easy To Love God In All That Was Beautiful. The Lessons Of Deeper Knowledge, Though, Instructed Me To Embrace God In All Things.

What Could You Do To A Man Who Owns Nothing? You Can't Starve A Fasting Man, You Can't Steal From Someone Who Has No Money, You Can't Ruin Someone Who Hates Prestige.

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.

Go Out And Preach The Gospel And If You Must, Use Words.

I Therefore Command All My Brothers, Those Living Now And Those To Come In The Future, To Venerate The Holy Mother Of God, Whom We Always Implore To Be Our Protectress, To Praise Her At All Times, In All Circumstances Of Life, With All The Means In Their Power And With The Greatest Devotion And Submission.