According to the world, pace and health are the treasures of life; according to the state in which you are, they are also two sources of good, since they give you the means of serving God and the people better (VI:188).

There is as much a difference between one vocation and another as between the sun and the moon or between day and night because the vocation that does not come from God is only the shadow of a true vocation (VI:176).

Those who truly love God do not boast about it; on the contrary they fear not loving Him (VI:165).

May your loving heart belong only to Jesus Christ, fully and always, in time and in eternity (VI:161).

Love is as strong as death and God alone deserves to be loved and served (VI:157).

You did not give yourself to God to follow your own inclination but to submit to God's guidance (VI:146).

You should be no more discouraged with suffering some aversion than travelers are with difficulties or sailors with storms. Each strives calmly to weather them so as to arrive at the place he plans to reach (VI:144).

God is always the same and deserves to be served now as formerly (VI:144).

The prosperity of the wicked terminates in shame, and the adversity of the just is turned into glory (VI:140).

After the storm comes the calm, and God who puts to death and raises to life, makes joy follow affliction and the effects of His power fulfill hopes based on His goodness (VI:140).