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

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.

Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.

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

In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.