对待恶人要像慈母怜恤病孩， 无论强壮、健康、病弱，都热切抚爱。 Act toward the wicked like the loving mother who is tormented with pity for her sick child, and caresses him with no less ardor when he is ill than when he is strong and well.

救灵的工人应为人的缘故，努力使自己被天主及人所接纳；并按近人的进步，调整神圣荣誉的热忱。 Workers for the salvation of souls ought so to labor as to make themselves acceptable not only to God but also to men for his sake; and regulate their zeal for the divine honor by their neighbor’s progress.

天主惯常赋与事物重大价值， 使之与祂给合，成为行善的工具。 It is God’s habit to put just so much value on anything as that thing is joined to him as an instrument for doing good.

错过即时事奉天主的机会，希望将来成就更大 事业是愚蠢的：因为可能两者皆失。 It is stupid to neglect an immediate opportunity of serving God in the hope of doing something greater in future: for it may well be that you will lose the one without gaining the other.

生命的德行及神圣，无论为人为神， 都能做很多事，几乎遍及一切。 Virtue and holiness of life can do a great deal, almost everything, with men, as well as with God.

日机万理，与人周旋，但没疏离天主或自己，是伟大及罕有的艺术。 To do many things and to mix with many people, yet not to turn aside from either God or oneself, is a great and rare art.

按俗世的看光，再没有比看到修道人分党分派，更为可鄙。 Nothing makes religious more contemptible in the world’s eyes than to see them divided into parties and sects among themselves.

寻求引领所有人走同一救赎之路非常危险，他不明白圣神的恩赐何等繁茂多姿。 To seek to bring all men to salvation by one road is very dangerous. He who does so fails to understand how many and various are the gifts of the Holy Ghost.

那些自认充满圣神的人，渴望管理灵魂， 大错特错！ How greatly mistaken are those who, while thinking themselves to be full of the spirit, are eager for the government of souls!