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.

Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.

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

Cast from your heart the bitterness.

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.