Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.

There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves.

[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!

In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.