Be very grateful to God, thank Him often, and ask Him for mercy (VIII:375).

You have a thousand reasons to rejoice in God and to hope for everything from Him through Our Lord who dwells in you (VIII:374).

What a great treasure is a good Missionary and how few people in this world are willing to serve God and His Church in purity of faith, detachment from creatures, and self-abnegation (VIII:367).

The poor country folk are our lot (VIII:367).

All that God does is well done; without this faith, we would be inconsolable (VIII:355).

Nothing should stop a worker of the Gospel from practicing the virtues proper to his state and from seeking to advance everywhere and in all things the glory of his Master (VIII:329).

Have God always in view so as to carry out your works according to His intentions, and form your entire interior life according to His example (VIII:329).

It is God who has called you to live of His life and to continue His work by the practice of charity (VIII:329).

It is God who has called you to live of His life and to continue His work by the practice of charity (VIII:329).

God be praised that He is the sole foundation of your hope (VIII:329).