List of points

You who for an earthly love have gone through so much, do you really believe that you love Christ when you are not willing — for him! — to suffer that humiliation?

When you hear your success being applauded, let there also sound in your ears the laughter you provoked with your failures.

You are humble not when you humble yourself, but when you are humbled by others and you bear it for Christ.

So you have been hauled over the coals? Don't follow the advice of pride and lose your temper. Say to yourself: how charitable they are towards me! When I think of all they must have left unsaid!…

God exalts those who carry out his will in the very things in which he humbled them.