[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.

. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by which others can be tormented. . . . Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil.

In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!

We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] C[hrist] and the duties of their state, as was our dear departed, are shipwrecked.

Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.

Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.