May He who has set you apart to instruct His people in salvation maintain your flock in doing good and preserve your Church without stain or wrinkle under your guidance (III:377).

The apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it (III:344).

If temptations are necessary for everyone, they are also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good (III:342).

Man's life is nothing but temptation, and no one is exempt from it (III:342).

Here we want to treat our Brothers as servants, even though it is true to say that most of them are more virtuous than most of us (III:319).

I think the trouble caused in religious Orders by the brothers arises from the fact that they are kept in too lowly a position (III:319).

Honey from your hive flows even into this house and serves as food for its children (III:275).

We are poor people more liable to turn aside His blessings that to draw them down (III:275).

Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on (III:272).

O Divine Goodness, unite in this way all hearts in the Little Company of the Mission, then order whatever you please. Labor will be sweet to them and every task easy; the strong person will relieve the weak one, and the weak will cherish the strong and obtain...