Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else.

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.

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

...a great good is worth being long desired.

. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little diffident about mine. But there is no harm done; I hope you will soon be over this slight jealousy and be convinced that nothing can change the genuine affection Our Lord has given me for you

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.