(1) Be convinced that exactness in rising is one of the most important practices in the Company and that as the day begins so the rest of the day continues; (2) give yourselves sincerely to God on going to bed in the evening, asking Him for the strength to overcome yourselves in the morning and to obey His voice without delay.

We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else.

(1) Be convinced that exactness in rising is one of the most important practices in the Company and that as the day begins so the rest of the day continues; (2) give yourselves sincerely to God on going to bed in the evening, asking Him for the strength to overcome yourselves in the morning and to obey His voice without delay.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

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

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.