"The Son of God became for us the way which our blessed Father Francis, his true ardent lover and imitator, has shown and taught us by word and example."

-Testament of Our Mother Saint Clare

"O my dearly loved daughters, know then, your holy vocation, your great dignity and high state of perfection!"

-Testament of Our Mother Saint Colette

"...the Abbess must solicitously profide a Mistress from among all the more discerning of the monastery who shall devotedly form them in holy living and becoming behavior according to the form of our profession."

-Rule of Saint Clare