May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

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

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

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.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.