The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.

[M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of suffering, and which keeps good servants of God in fear when they have nothing to suffer!

In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.

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

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.