“"External activity is good; but, it is obviously of secondary importance and lesser still in comparison with the interior life, the life of recollection and of prayer, with the life of our personal love towards God" As quoted in "In Pursuit of Immortal Souls: Meditations on the Role of Redemptive Suffering, Silence and Prayer in the Missions" by Friar M.M. De Cruce, F.I., Franciscan Academy of the Immaculate, New Bedford, MA, 2002”