How fortunate you are to be the instrument of Our Lord in forming good priests (VI:413).

May this same Lord be pleased to enlighten us with His Spirit so we can see the darkness of our own mind and submit it to those whom He has designated to guide us (VI:408).

I ask Our Lord to be your wisdom and your governance so that all will go well with you and by you, in accord with whatever God may ask (VI:390).

May our Lord be pleased to preserve us from the company of a person who can do the slightest harm to our spirit (VI:369).

Great prudence is required in order not to offend anyone and great charity and humility must be exercised so as to truly edify the congregation (VI:344).

God knows what is best for us, and He will give it to us at the right time if, like children who have perfect trust in such a good father, we abandon ourselves to Him (VI:331).

This maxim of neither asking nor refusing anything, which keeps us dependent on God and His guidance, can only be pleasing to god, especially because it destroys human sentiments that, under pretext of zeal and of the glory of God, lead us often to undertake works...

May it please God to maintain this zeal in the Company and to strengthen you more and more so that your zeal, like a tree of life, may always bear fruit of an eternal duration (VI:308).

May God be pleased to strengthen you with His grace so that, by sanctifying your soul more and more, He will also sanctify, through it, the souls of the people (VI:257).

I ask Our Lord, whom you serve so effectively, to be Himself your strength so that you may sustain with vigor and merit the exterior and interior trials you are undergoing and receive the reward promised to those who persevere. This reward is so precious that, in...