Since you are not being helped by men, you could not do what you are doing without the hand of God, who not only strengthens you in this heavy work, but also touches the hearts of those who come to you (V:544).

I ask Our Lord to be your first and second assistant in the other missions you are going to undertake (V:534).

What a great rest God is preparing for you in heaven, since you take so little on earth, where you are consuming your life for the love of Our Lord, who gave His own for our salvation (V:531).

You will merit just as much by patiently awaiting the Master’s will as by doing it when it is made known to you, since you are ready for anything— ready to leave, ready to remain (V:528-529).

I praise God for the zeal with which your workers are laboring and for the other graces He bestows on them and, through them, on the people. I ask His Infinite Goodness to grant them the strength of body and mind needed for such an important and arduous ministry as the mission. You are their Moses, raising your hands to heaven while they combat God’s enemies, and even their Joshua, sine you fight with them by means of the weapons, assistance and encouragement, and talks you give them (V:505-506).

When a person is determined to give himself to God without reserve, temporal interests must accommodate themselves to this plan (V:490).

Since you are entrusting yourself entirely to God’s goodness, you must allow God to continue to work through you (V:490).

Missionaries should strive to remain lowly and unknown and not to make a display and cause others to esteem them (V:485).

Begin with something small and have great love for your own abjection. This is the spirit of Our Lord and that is how he acted and that is also the means of attracting his graces (V:485).

We are not true Christians if we do not embrace and cherish tenderly the ridicule that will be heaped upon us (V:483).