In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.

So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world; and do what? To set people's hearts on fire, to do what the Son of God did. He came to set the world on fire in order to inflame it with His love.

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

Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal.

Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.