May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.