If you want to have peace of heart and a thousand blessings from God, do not listen any longer either to your own judgment or your will (VII:589).

May God, in His mercy, be pleased to fill all of us with faith, charity, and zeal for rendering some small service to His Church! Happy are those who, on these foundations, hope in God and consume themselves for charity (VII:575).

We should lament before God at seeing so many needs in the Church and ask the Divine Goodness to be pleased to remedy them and to send good workers into His vineyard (VII:559).

It is not the most learned persons who have the best results but rather those who have greater grace from God (VII:534).

Let us open wide our hearts and wills in His presence, not deciding to do this or that until God has spoken (VII:532).

Let us offer ourselves to God to do and suffer all things for His glory and the building up of His Church (VII:531).

Let us consider ourselves unworthy of being used by God and of having others think of us, and then we will be well off (VII:531).

We do not want to choose our own ways but to walk in those it will please God to set down for us (VII:531).

We must be satisfied with making the best use of the few talents God has given us without troubling ourselves about having greater or more extensive ones (VII:531).

I can only be deeply grieved by the intense sufferings of the poor slaves and by my inability to procure some relief for them; may it please God to have pity on them (VII:523).