Let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable. That is the only way to be highly esteemed (IV:479).

You acquire new merits daily by the unprecedented good you do everywhere and for all sorts of persons (IV:456).

People devoted to the assistance of their neighbor are using all their energy and alms to snatch the poor from the jaws of death and poor girls from occasions of sin (IV:453).

I hope that God in his goodness will draw strength from these weaknesses and His glory from our miseries (IV:439).

God be praised that you are ready to do His Will in all things and everywhere and to go to live and die wherever He chooses to call you (IV:437).

We can say that this war will be the cause of the damnation of many persons but that God will also make use of it for the grace, the justification, and the glory of many persons (IV:415).

Soup is distributed daily to fourteen or fifteen thousand persons who would die of hunger without this assistance (IV:396).

We hope from the goodness of God that peace will come (IV:395-396).

All our trust must be in God and we must rest assured that nothing will happen to us that God does not allow (IV:393).

The poor are our portion, and now that they are coming to us, driven out by the hardships of war, which is emptying the countryside, it seems that we are more obliged to work for their salvation in the present affliction in the place where they are now (IV:392).