List of points

We were reading — you and I — the heroically ordinary life of that man of God. —And we saw him struggle, for months and years (what 'accounts' he kept in his particular examination!), at breakfast time: today he won, tomorrow he was beaten… He noted: 'Didn't take butter…; did take butter!'

May we too — you and I — live our... 'butter tragedy'.

Do you really want to be a saint? Carry out the little duty of each moment: do what you ought and concentrate on what you are doing.

Persevere in the exact fulfilment of the obligations of the moment. That work — humble, monotonous, small — is prayer expressed in action that prepares you to receive the grace of the other work — great and wide and deep — of which you dream.