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.

Man's condition is never the same; he is humbled, then exalted; sometimes at peace, sometimes persecuted; enlightened today and plunged into darkness tomorrow. What is to be done? As I said, let us be prepared for whatever may happen.

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.

Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.