We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.

Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.

"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.