A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.

God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.

The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!

In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it.

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] C[hrist] and the duties of their state, as was our dear departed, are shipwrecked.

. . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living.