May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it.

[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.

All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!

Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!