It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in conformity with the Spirit of Our Lord and more apt to win hearts.

There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves.

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!

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.

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

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.

Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those you serve], they offer you the occasion for practices which increase your merit in the measure that you make them meritorious by your patience.