If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death. . . . We panic at first, but God does not always allow the evil that is feared to happen.

[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.

If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.

Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

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

... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.