A deep love for God in this life which will be shown by practicing His goodness, gentleness and charity toward my neighbor.

All the virtues are to be found in prayer… you will always do quite enough if you go to it [prayer] in the spirit of obedience and humility… ask God to give you the grace of prayer.

As I reflect on the present condition of the Company,… [it] leads me to realize how necessary it is for the Rules to continue to oblige the sisters to live poorly, simply and humbly because I fear that if they settle into a way of life that requires great expenditures, is ostentatious… they would thereby be obliged to find ways to maintain it, and so they would become a very withdrawn and inactive group…

Teach poor children as much as you can, and remember that the most necessary thing of all is whatever concerns the knowledge of God and his love.

We can have no peace [but] with God, with our neighbor or with ourselves unless Jesus Christ gives it to us.

O my God, why am I unable to reveal to the world the beauty which You have shown me as well as the dignity of the Blessed Virgin? Everything is comprised in her title of Mother of the Son of God. How admirable are her deeds! With good reason the Church addresses her as the Mother of Mercy because she is also the Mother of Grace.

Let us serve with hearts filled with the pure love of God which enables us always to love the roses amidst the thorns.

We are leaving God for God if we leave one of our spiritual exercises for the service of the poor.

True humility will regulate everything.

Gentleness, cordiality and forbearance must be the practices of the Daughters of Charity just as humility, simplicity and the love of the holy humanity of Jesus Christ, who is perfect charity, is their spirit.

I urge all of them to be very courageous especially in perfecting themselves in the practice of true humility, gentleness, obedience, cordiality and support for one another.

If humility, simplicity and charity, which produce support, are well established among you, your little Company will be made up of as many saints as there are persons.

Sometimes we are under pressure, and it seems to us that we urgently need and hope for help from others. However, we are disappointed. This happens either through the conduct of Divine Providence or because of human weakness. We should look immediately to the will of God and accept it in this situation. We should raise our minds to God and depend only on Him, remembering that, from all eternity, He has been and is sufficient to Himself; consequently, He can and should be sufficient for us.

We must hope that God, in His goodness, will bless your efforts and bestow upon you all the graces you need to accomplish His most holy will because you were chosen for this work by the guidance of Divine Providence.

May my life be solely for Jesus and my neighbor so that, by means of this unifying love, I may love all that Jesus loves.

I must practice great humility and mistrust of myself; abandon myself continuously to the Providence of God; imitate, insofar as I am able, the life Our Lord who came on earth to accomplish the holy will of God His Father; assist my neighbor to the best of my ability both corporally and spiritually for the love which God has for all of us equally; carry out my spiritual exercises carefully.

I have great reason to say, in truth, that it has been Divine Providence alone at work. Going there, I had no knowledge of what there was to do. I can say that I saw what was being done only when it was completed. In encounters where I could have met with obstacles, the same Divine Providence provided, totally unexpectedly, persons who could help me…. It also seemed to me that I was doing what I was meant to do without knowing how. May God be forever blessed for it!

God, who has granted me so many graces, led me to understand that it was His holy will that I go to Him by way of the Cross. His goodness chose to mark me with it from my birth and He has hardly ever left me, at any age, without some occasion of suffering.

What can you do in this situation, my dear sisters? Nothing but practice patience and imitate, as far as you are able, the example of Our Lord who consumed His strength and His life in the service of His neighbor. By doing so you will find strength not only for your bodies but also for your minds which will receive very extraordinary consolations.

With all my heart I wish you the joy and interior consolation of a soul that is lovingly submissive to the most holy will of God…

We must hope that God, in His goodness, will bless your efforts and bestow upon you all the graces you need to accomplish His most holy will because you were chosen for this work by the guidance of Divine Providence.

Since the sacrament of Baptism is a spiritual birth, it follows that He, in whose name we are baptized, is our Father and that, as His children, we must resemble Him.

I affirm and renew the sacred profession made to God for me at my Baptism. I irrevocably resolve to love and serve Him with greater fidelity and to give myself entirely to Him.

Health is the most precious treasure of Life.

Divine Providence saw to it that alms were given for the sick and bashful poor in amounts for which no one had dared hope.