List of points

Renew each day the effective desire to empty yourself, to deny yourself, to forget yourself, to walk in novitate sensus, with a new life, exchanging this misery of ours for all the hidden and eternal grandeur of God.

Lord, rescue me from myself!

Make sure you practise this very interesting mortification: that of not making your conversation revolve around yourself.

Lord, grant me the grace to give up everything that has to do with myself. I should have no other concern than your Glory… in other words, your Love. — Everything for Love!

The majority of people who have personal problems “have them” because they selfishly think about themselves.

You saw it quite clearly: while so many people do not know God, he has looked to you. He wants you to form a foundation stone, an ashlar, on which the life of the Church can rest.

Meditate on this reality and you will draw many practical consequences for your ordinary behaviour: the foundation stone — hidden and possibly rather dull — has to be solid, showing no weakness. It has to serve as a support for the building… If not, it remains isolated.

Don’t be anxious for people to sympathise with you. That is often a sign of pride or vanity.

To give oneself sincerely to others is so effective that God rewards it with a humility filled with cheerfulness.

Our humiliation, our self-effacement, our disappearing and passing unnoticed, should be complete, entire, total.

A resolution: unless I really have to, never to speak of my personal affairs.

The co-redeeming — eternal! — efficacy of our lives can only become real with humility, passing unnoticed, so that others can discover Him.

When a person really lives charity, there is no time left for self-seeking. There is no room left for pride. We will not find occasion for anything but service!