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

Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.

. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy . . .

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.

God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the spirit of Our Lord.

When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits; because conformity to the will of God is a gain far superior to all temporal advantages.