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.

And what are we doing if we are not doing God's Will?

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.

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.

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.