I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy . . .

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

Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!

[N]or should you move so fast! The works of God do not proceed in that way; they come about of themselves, and those He does not create soon perish.