For a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life.

I am where God wills me to be, and so I have found rest and security. His wisdom governs me, His power defends me, His grace sanctifies me, His mercy encompasses me, His joy sustains me and all will go well with me.

How can we thankful? We can only love the Heart of Jesus more generously and by our union with Him, become the most humble.

All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.

The more I reflect on the graces I have received, the more they astonish me and make me tremble.

If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not really my business.

You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.