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!

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

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.

[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.

If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good life, it is, therefore, preserved by the practice of virtue and not by human intrigue.

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!

Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors.