I have made to God the offering you made to me of your heart and have asked him to unite mine with yours in that of Our Lord.

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

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

A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

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

I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives! They are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings.

. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers.