How consoled you will be at the hour of death for having consumed your life for the same reason for which Jesus Christ gave His life-- for charity, for God, for the poor (VII:397).

It is not men who make things go well, but God, who sometimes allows them to go differently than the way we would like so as to make us realize that we can do nothing about them or to try our patience (VII:389).

We must have a high regard for the promises we make to God and, ever more, for carrying them out (VII:383).

If you give only very little to the poor out of helplessness, you give a great deal to God out of love since you offer God your own comfort, your heavy labors and your life (VII:380).

Those who are armed with virtue and with confidence in their Divine Captain will return laden with spoils of the enemy (VII:362).

What does it matter where God is served, provided he is served, that it be done on behalf of souls for whom Jesus Christ has died and that it be done through ways most advantageous for them (VII:346-347).

Let us remain lowly and be glad to be poor because when the world sees us debased in this way, it will despise us (VII:344).

Our Lord and Master calls all Missionaries to follow Him and through them the people whose salvation is entrusted to their care (VII:342-343).

Since God has been pleased to inspire you with this good work and to cause you to cast your eyes on us, His Divine Goodness wills also that we proceed in it simply and wholeheartedly (VII:236).

Every walk of life has its joys and sorrows; we have to drink both of them. Heaven suffers violence and we must renounce ourselves to follow Our Lord (VII:333).