It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

Cast from your heart the bitterness.

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.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.

Fear not; calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.