If the Company takes my advice, it will always be preserved through this maxim, for if we are good, we will not lack any, and if we are not, we already have too many houses anyway, and can hardly fill the few we have.

What you are saying is true of those who want everything to give way to them, nothing to oppose them, everything to go their way, people to obey them without comment or delay and, in a manner of speaking, to be adored.

I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.

If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.

Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give 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.

Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen but what is pleasing to God. The less there is of man in affairs, the more there is of God.