In order to become soundly virtuous it is advisable to make good practical resolution concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying them out afterward. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination (II:217).

Take care of your poor life. Be content with consuming it little by little for Divine Love. It is not your own; it belong to the Author of Life, for love of whom you must preserve it until He asks it of you (II:211).

God compensates for and accomplishes in a divine way what men and women are not able to do in a human way (II:199).

Although you do not have so many talents, Our Lord will increase them for you, if He chooses (II:191).

Your concerns do not depend on a house, but on the continuation of God's blessing on the work (II:189).

I cannot tell you how much alms have diminished here and the difficulty of finding any loans. Everyone is being affected by the misery of the age (II:171).

I beg Our Lord to reward you and to increase His love in you (II:169).

How good God is to those who detach themselves from the affections of the world to unite themselves to Him (II:160).

Zeal which goes outside the enclosure of love of the neighbor is no longer zeal, but the passion of antipathy (II:157).

All those things are nothing but exercises for your purgation, illumination, and perfection, and so that you can sympathize with those whom you see in similar dispositions. It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptation of mind...