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

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

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way

What a reason the Company has for observing its Rules faithfully: to do what the Son of God came into the world to do! That there should be a Company, and that it should be the Company of the Mission, composed of poor men, and that it should be entirely dedicated to that purpose, going here and there through hamlets and villages, leaving the towns behind-something that's never been done-and going to announce the Gospel only to persons who are poor; yet, those are our Rules!

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.

There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited to those whom God has called to the former, which is in itself more excellent.