What a great treasure is a good Missionary and how few people in this world are willing to serve God and His Church in purity of faith, detachment from creatures, and self-abnegation (VIII:367).

The poor country folk are our lot (VIII:367).

All that God does is well done; without this faith, we would be inconsolable (VIII:355).

Nothing should stop a worker of the Gospel from practicing the virtues proper to his state and from seeking to advance everywhere and in all things the glory of his Master (VIII:329).

Have God always in view so as to carry out your works according to His intentions, and form your entire interior life according to His example (VIII:329).

It is God who has called you to life of His life and to continue His work by the practice of charity (VIII:329).

God be praised that He is the sole foundation of your hope (VIII:329).

I ask the Holy Spirit, who is nothing if not love, and who is the sacred bond of the Father and the Son, to be the soul of your leadership and the gentleness of yours words and actions (VIII:318).

How great is human weakness and how powerful are the goods of this world to tempt us (VIII:296).

A death that finds us arms in hand is the most glorious and most desirable there is (VIII:293).