"In Community...the Spirit of God should be the only guide, and people ought to breathe only God and think only of pleasing him." (DLS)
"You must consider the obligation to win the hearts of children as one of the principal means to lead them to live in a Christian manner."(DLS)
"Take care that you apply yourself well to the practice of prayer?You know that this exercise?draws down his graces on us." (DLS)
"Today in 1679 is the accepted date of the opening of the first school in the Parish of St Maurice, Rheims, managed by Adrien Nyel.
"Apply yourself often to remember the presence of God?Look upon this practice as your greatest happiness." (DLS)
"God looks on poor children with compassion and takes care of them?and undertakes to give them everything you ask of him for them." (DLS)
"Since you assist at Holy Mass to make a sacrifice of yourself, why not offer yourself with the host...at the Offertory?" (DLS)
"Be assured that once you have placed yourself in God?s hands...he will help you by his grace...in a way that is not obvious." (DLS)
"Look upon your work as one of the most important and most excellent in the Church, for it is one most able to strengthen it..." (DLS)
In 1719, on April 7th at 4.00 am John Baptist De La Salle died at St Yon, Rouen: ?I adore God guiding me in all the events of my life."
"Do you fear putting yourself entirely in the hands of Providence?" (DLS in a letter to Gabriel Drolin)
"I shall always consider the work of my salvation and that of establishing and directing our Community as God?s work." (DLS)
"Throw yourself into God?s arms He is your Father and he will carry you when the road is rough." (DLS)




















