List of points

Atonement: this is the path that leads to Life.

How afraid people are of atonement! If all that they do for appearance's sake, to please the world, were done with purified intention for God… what saints many would be!

You are crying? Don't be ashamed of it. Yes, cry: men also cry like you, when they are alone and before God. Each night, says King David, I soak my bed with tears. With those tears, those burning, manly tears, you can purify your past and supernaturalize your present life.

If you realize that those sufferings — of body or soul — mean purification and merit, bless them.

Let your will exact from your senses, by means of atonement, what your other faculties deny your will in prayer.

How we ennoble suffering, giving it its right place (atonement) in the spiritual order!

'What I owe to God as a Christian! My failure to respond to God's grace, in the face of that debt, has made me weep with sorrow; with Love-sorrow. Mea culpa!

It is good that you acknowledge your debts; but don't forget how they are paid: with tears… and with deeds.