I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?

[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!

If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.

God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.

There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited to those whom God has called to the former, which is in itself more excellent.