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

Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.

All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

(1) Be convinced that exactness in rising is one of the most important practices in the Company and that as the day begins so the rest of the day continues; (2) give yourselves sincerely to God on going to bed in the evening, asking Him for the strength to overcome yourselves in the morning and to obey His voice without delay.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.