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

...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.

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

Practice humility and patience.

...Omit nothing which can advance his work, and not blame others for the delay.

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

I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!