“Our Order is contempt, humility and voluntary poverty; it is obedience, joy and peace in the Holy Spirit. Our Order is submission to a superior, to an abbot, to a rule, to discipline.Our Order is zeal for silence, the practice of fasting, vigils, prayer, manual work and, above all, it consists of following a more excellent path, which is charity. Also, it's about making progress in all these things, day by day, and then persevering to the end."

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Letter 142