There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.

[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.

Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences

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.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world; and do what? To set people's hearts on fire, to do what the Son of God did. He came to set the world on fire in order to inflame it with His love.

...a great good is worth being long desired.