We ask God to guide and possess you entirely in time and eternity (V:452).

How do we know whether God angered by the disorder of His own children of the Church, may not intend to transfer it among the unbelievers (V:425).

With the strong sustaining the weak, everything would go better (V:423).

If God were pleased to give this spirit of support and adaptation to each individual, what great union and advantages would this procure for the entire body because we would regard the interest of others as our own! (V:423).

We are obliged, as Christians, to bear with our neighbor's ill humor and try to temper it (V:412).

You should at least stifle the outbursts of your own will in those feeling of agitated nature so as not to give in to it in its troubled state for fear of aggravating the evil instead of curing it (V:410).

The works of God have their moment; God's providence brings them about at that time and neither sooner nor later (V:400).

Be assured that it is not improper for priests of the Mission to demand justice for poor slaves so that they may be given what is being held back from them (V:398).

We will always be ready to render service in the way our Rule allows: to go and instruct poor country folk, hear their general confessions, reconcile them with one another, settle their disputes, and organize assistance for the poor who are sick corporally as well as...

Young plants cannot produce fruits too soon, and if they do, wise gardeners pluck them off and unburden them of them (V:361).