We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

I beg Our Lord, Monsieur, that we may be able to die to ourselves in order to rise with Him, that he may be the joy of your heart, the end and soul of your actions, and your glory in heaven. This will come to pass if, from now on, we humble ourselves as He humbled Himself, if we renounce our own satisfaction to follow Him by carrying our little crosses, and if we give our lives willingly, as He gave His, for our neighbor whom He loves so much and whom He wants us to love as ourselves.

. . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living.

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

Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends you, or which come to you from within and without.

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.

Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.