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 there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring

In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless fear which may cause us to abandon the task He has given us.

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!

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.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

. . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.