List of points

Don't say: 'That person gets on my nerves.' Think: 'That person sanctifies me.'

If you lose the supernatural meaning of your life, your charity will be philanthropy; your purity, decency; your mortification, stupidity; your discipline, a whip; and all your works, fruitless.

All that, which worries you for the moment, is of relative importance. What is of absolute importance is that you be happy, that you be saved.

To punish out of Love: this is the secret that raises to a supernatural plane the punishment of those who deserve it.

For the love of God, who has been offended, let punishment serve as reparation. For the love of our neighbour and for the sake of God, let it be imposed, never as revenge, but as health-giving medicine.

In your apostolic undertakings you are right — it's your duty — to consider what means the world can offer you (2+2=4), but don't forget — ever! — that, fortunately, your calculations must include another term: God+2+2…

Don't be gloomy. Let your outlook be more 'ours', — more christian.

All that this earth can offer us is continually passing away: hardly has pleasure begun than it is already ended.