Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.

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

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

I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.

Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.