Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.

I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.

Would that God, Monsieur, had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation of those poor souls so far removed from all assistance.

All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him

In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.