List of points

My God, how is it that I do not cry out in sorrow and love whenever I see a Crucifix?

Whenever you feel the stirrings of your poor flesh, which sometimes attacks with violent assaults, kiss your crucifix, kiss it many times with firm resolve, even if it seems to you that you are doing so without love.

How difficult you find that mortification suggested to you by the Holy Spirit! Look at a Crucifix, steadily… and you will come to love that expiation.

Our Lord, with his arms outstretched, is continually begging for your alms of love.

Christ is nailed to the Cross. And you?… Still taken up with your whims and fancies — or rather, nailed by them!

“I carry a little Crucifix”, wrote a friend. “Its Crucified is worn out by use and by kisses . It was left to my father when his mother, who had used it, died.

It’s a poor thing and much the worse for wear, so I would not have the nerve to give it away to anyone. That’s why when I see it my love for the Cross will grow.”