Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.

Practice humility and patience.

In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.

Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear. We rely more on our own efforts than on those of his Providence, and we think we are doing a great deal by anticipating His orders by our own disorder, which causes us to rely on human prudence rather than on his Word.

I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how sure we would then be of doing His Holy Will, which is our sole aspiration, and how much peace and contentment we would enjoy, or so it seems to me!

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

He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal.