All we have to do is walk straight ahead and do well to make everyone our friend (XIIIb:193).

The Christian spirit consists in not pretending anything, but rather in being very sincere, making one's words and works correspond to one's thoughts (XIIIb:162).

They went from one place to another to meet the needs, not only of the Church workers, but of the faithful who were in distress (XIIIb:436).

You are to be interiorly and continually devoted to working at your spiritual advancement and live as perfectly as you can, always keeping the lamp within you lighted-- I mean a cordial, ardent, and persevering desire to please and obey God (XIIIb:434).

God be praised for granting you the grace of clothing Our Lord in His poor members, most of whom had nothing but rags to cover them and several children were as naked as the back of my hand (XIIIb:428).

A calling is a choice God makes of some souls to use them for a certain good work (XIIIb:417).

The art of loving God is to love Him; likewise, the art of acquiring humility is to humble ourselves, and more we advance in this practice, the more we will resemble our Lord (XIIIb:341).

Who could understand the height, the depth, the sublimity of the grace by which God renders a soul worthy of being used where and as He wishes? (XIIIb:340).

As we empty ourselves of self and of the desire to be noticed, esteemed, and respected, God will fill our souls with graces and blessings, given to each according to the degree of perfection He demands (XIIIb:337).

How true it is that a person must be called by God in order to be stable in any vocation whatsoever; otherwise there is nothing but wavering and inconstancy (XIIIb:333).