With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?

There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves.

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.

People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another.

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.

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.