[M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of suffering, and which keeps good servants of God in fear when they have nothing to suffer!

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

[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.

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