I am not a man but a poor worm crawling along the earth, not knowing where I am going, but seeking only to hide myself in you, O God.
I am no longer good for anything but to make up for lost time and prepare myself for the judgment of god. How happy I will be if I can find favor in His sight.
I am a poor blind man unable to take a single step in the way of goodness unless You, O God, extend Your merciful hand to guide me.
I admit that virtue is accompanied by two vices: excess and default.
Humility is in no way contrary to magnanimity. (XI: 273). God does nothing without some good purpose.
Humility… may this be our password.
How wonderful are the ways of God and how incomprehensible they are to us!
How very precious is a good missionary! God must raise him up and fashion him; that is the work of His omnipotence and His great goodness.
How true it is that the world is filled with misery! Courage, we must put up with our own and with that of others as long as God pleases.
How true it is that a person must be called by God in order to be stable in any vocation whatsoever; otherwise there is nothing but wavering and inconstancy.
How pleased Our Lord is with your concern for the relief of His suffering members.
How much our hearts should be on fire with love for this ministry of assisting poor people and for devoting ourselves earnestly to it because the need is so great and God expects this of us.
How many open doors to serve Our Lord! Ask Him to send workers into His vineyard.
How long will we be so tender-hearted as not to dare to declare the happiness we have of being visited by God?
How little it takes to be very holy: to do the Will of God in all things.
How I wish that the members of the Mission who are together would do everything in conjunction with one another! This is how friends act, and how much more so should two brothers who live together.
How I fear large numbers and expansion. What reason we have to praise God for allowing us to honor the small number of the disciples of His Son.
How hard it is to find an individual who is really knowledgeable and truly humble.
How happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them.
How happy are you to be in the state of the beatitude which declares blessed those who suffer persecution for justice’s sake.
How happy are those who give themselves to God without reserve to do the works Jesus Christ did and to practice the virtues He practiced.
How happy are those who bear their cross lovingly in imitation of the Master.
How happy are they who give themselves unreservedly to God to do the works that Jesus Christ did and to practice the virtues he practiced.
How great is human weakness and how powerful are the goods of this world to tempt us.
How good God is to those who detach themselves from the affections of the world to unite themselves to Him.
How fortunate you are to walk on the ground where so many great and holy individuals have trod.
How fortunate we are to honor the poor family of Our Lord by the poverty and lowliness of our own.
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.
How consoled you will be at the hour of death for having consumed your life for the same reason for which Jesus Christ gave His life — for charity, for God, for the poor.
How can a Company inflame hearts with true charity, if the Company itself does not have it?.