There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

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

That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.

Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.

Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.