List of points

Don't try to reason with concupiscence: scorn it.

Don't show the cowardice of being 'brave'; take to your heels!

The saints were not abnormal beings: cases to be studied by a 'modernistic' doctor. They were — they are — normal: of flesh, like yours. And they won.

'The flesh though dressed in silk'… This is my only comment when I see you waver before the temptation that hides its impurity under pretexts of art, of science…, of charity!

This is my only comment set in the words of an old proverb: 'The flesh is flesh though dressed in silk.'

If you only knew what you are worth!… It is Saint Paul who tells you: you have been bought 'at a great price'. And he adds: 'That is why you should use your body for the glory of God'.

When you have sought the company of a sensual satisfaction, what loneliness afterwards!

And to think that for the satisfaction of a moment, which left in you dregs of bitterness, you have lost 'the way'!

'What a wretched man am I! Who will rescue me from this body doomed to death?' The cry is Saint Paul's. — Courage: he too had to fight.

At the time of temptation think of the Love that awaits you in heaven: foster the virtue of hope — this is not a lack of generosity.

Whatever happens, there is no need to worry as long as you don't consent. For only the will can open the door of the heart and let that corruption in.

You seem to hear a voice within you saying. 'That religious prejudice!' And then the eloquent defence of all the weaknesses of our poor fallen flesh: 'Its rights!'

When this happens, tell the enemy that there is a natural law and a law of God… and God! And also hell.

'Domine! — Lord — si vis, potes me mundare, — if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.'

What a beautiful prayer for you to say often, with the faith of the poor leper, when there happens to you what God and you and I know! You will not have to wait long to hear the Master's reply: 'Volo, mundare! I will: be thou made clean!'