Let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable. That is the only way to be highly esteemed (IV:479).

Soup is distributed daily to fourteen or fifteen thousand persons who would die of hunger without this assistance (IV:396).

We hope from the goodness of God that peace will come (IV:395-396).

All our trust must be in God and we must rest assured that nothing will happen to us that God does not allow (IV:393).

The poor are our portion, and now that they are coming to us, driven out by the hardships of war, which is emptying the countryside, it seems that we are more obliged to work for their salvation in the present affliction in the place where they are now (IV:392).

Even if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except what God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow (IV:387).

Let us establish ourselves in total dependence on God, trusting that in so doing whatever men say or do against us will turn to the good (IV:387).

We pray well when we remain in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will (IV:385).

It seems to me that there is no dwelling place comparable to the one to which you aspire-- that of peace and quiet (IV:382).

What Our Lord guards is well guarded (IV:381).