Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.

I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives! They are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

Cast from your heart the bitterness.

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

. . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit.