Let us set about stripping ourselves entirely of affection for anything that is not God, be attached to things only for God and according to God, and let us seek and establish His kingdom first of all in ourselves, and then in others (II:122).

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others (II:113).

We must make a rule that they may not, under any pretext whatsoever, eat what is intended for the poor (II:107).

Our Lord proclaims the idleness and sensuality of Magdalen to be more agreeable to Him than the less considerate zeal of Martha (II:85).

Zeal is the soul of the virtues (II:84).

It is easy to go from deficiency to excess of the virtues, from being just to becoming rigid, and from zealous to inconsiderate (II:84).

How little it takes to be very holy: to do the Will of God in all things (II:47).

Roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness (II:22).

Was it not necessary for Christ to be humbled and brought low before man in order to get him to accept the gentle yoke of His dominion and His guidance? (II:7).

A priest should be more perfect than a religious as such, and a bishop even more so (II:5).