You have enough to put up with from outsiders and from your duties without creating new trials within the community. These are the most distressing ones and would make of your house a little purgatory, whereas love will make of it a little paradise (V:169).

The duty of daughters of Our Lord who live and serve Him together and have only one same intention of making themselves pleasing in the eyes of God, is to cherish, help, and bear with one another while showing mutual respect (V:169).

You are Daughters of Charity, but you would no longer be so if you lived amid misunderstanding, aversion, or mistrust of one another. God grant that this may not be the case among you (V:169).

Everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands and by the most amiable corrections as well (V:167).

Abandon yourself to God's paternal embrace in the hope that He Himself will accomplish in you what He expects of you and will bless whatever you do for Him. Therefore keep your heart ready to receive peace and joy of the Holy Spirit (V:166).

If you are inclined toward evil you know that God is incomparably more inclined to do good and to do it even in and through you (V:166).

You have good reason to mistrust yourself, but you have greater reason to put your trust in God (V:166).

We should hope that God will be more honored by our submission to His providence in awaiting His orders than if we ventured to anticipate them (V:165).

Continue to offer God your work and to raise your heart to Him, asking Him to bless you and telling Him that you want to be faithful to Him always (V:160).

There is always great good for those who humble themselves (V:143).