God sometimes allows these great disturbances, which unsettle the most secure States, to remind earthly sovereigns that they are answerable to His kingship and are just as dependent as their own subjects (V:449-450).

Mortification, like all the other virtues, is acquired only by repeated acts (V:443).

Love one another, bear with one another, support one another and be united in the Spirit of God who has chosen you for this great undertaking and will preserve you for its fulfillment (V:441).

May God be ever in the center of your heart and give you the strength needed in the present disturbances! (V:435).

We ask God to guide and possess you entirely in time and eternity (V:452).

How do we know whether God angered by the disorder of His own children of the Church, may not intend to transfer it among the unbelievers? (V:425).

With the strong sustaining the weak, everything would go better (V:423).

If God were pleased to give this spirit of support and adaptation to each individual, what great union and advantages would this procure for the entire body because we would regard the interest of others as our own! (V:423).

We are obliged, as Christians, to bear with our neighbor’s ill humor and try to temper it (V:412).

You should at least stifle the outbursts of your own will in those feeling of agitated nature so as not to give in to it in its troubled state for fear of aggravating the evil instead of curing it (V:410).