Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear. We rely more on our own efforts than on those of his Providence, and we think we are doing a great deal by anticipating His orders by our own disorder, which causes us to rely on human prudence rather than on his Word.

God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.

Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

[L]ove is inventive to infinity.

Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim

You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time

...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.