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

That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

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

Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil. Be very cheerful and humble yourself as much as you can. Ordinarily, God allows these things to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility.

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

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.