It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better.

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

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.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

I will always welcome joyfully any opportunity that comes my way to be of service to you

Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil. Be very cheerful and humble yourself as much as you can. Ordinarily, God allows these things to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility.

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.