The good God, who has ordinarily provided you with everything at the right moment, will not abandon you now (I:342).

How true it is that the world is filled with misery! Courage, we must put up with our own and with that of others as long as God pleases (I:340).

Sick minds need to be cared for more delicately and charitably than people who are physically ill (I:332).

In His admirable Providence, Our Lord allows holy fathers and mothers to suffer anguish from their own flesh and blood (I:315).

Remember that the faults of the children are not always imputed to the parents, especially when they have had them educated and have given them good example (I:314).

I cannot tell you how much the poor have need of your living a long time (I:307).

How I fear large numbers and expansion. What reason we have to praise God for allowing us to honor the small number of the disciples of His Son (I:304).

We are like the servants of the centurion in the gospel with regard to bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it (I:297).

Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do (I:290).

People will never believe in us if we do not show love and compassion to those whom we wish to believe in us (I:277).