God has preserved you as the apple of His eye (II:290).

Would that God had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation those poor souls so far removed from all assistance (II:288).

When His Holiness chooses to send the Company to those countries, it will drop everything and go most willingly (II:288).

Our Lord has turned to you for the sustenance of the poor (II:285).

The spirit of God proceeds discreetly and always humbly (II:178).

In the seminary there is more need of piety and passable knowledge with an understanding of chant, ceremonies, preaching and the teaching of catechism than of a great deal of doctrine (II:266).

The spirit of the Mission must be to seek its greatness in lowliness and its reputation in the love of its abjection (II:265).

Let us trust that Our Lord will bring about what He wishes to be done among us (II:237).

It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes (II:226).

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).