List of points

Loving souls for God’s sake will make us love everyone: understanding, excusing, forgiving…

We should have a love that can cover the multitude of failings contrived by human wretchedness. We have to have a wonderful charity, veritatem facientes in caritate, defending the truth, without hurting anyone.

You spend your time with that companion of yours who is scarcely even civil to you… and it’s hard.

—Keep at it, and don’t judge him. He’ll have his “reasons”, just as you have yours, which you strengthen so as to pray for him more each day.

Understanding is real charity. When you really achieve it, you will have a great heart which is open to all without discrimination. Even with those who have treated you badly you will put into living practice that advice of Jesus: “Come to me all you that… are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

If you really loved God with all your heart, then that love for your neighbour, which you sometimes find so hard to have, would come as a necessary consequence of your Great Love. You would never feel hostility towards anyone, nor would you discriminate between people.