List of points

You began in good heart. But little by little your spirit has shrunk… And you are going to end up in your own poor shell, if you continue to let your horizons become smaller and smaller.

—You have to allow your heart to expand more and more, with real hunger for the apostolate! Out of a hundred souls we are interested in a hundred.

To be happy, what you need is not an easy life but a heart which is in love.

When someone has a very small heart, it seems as if he keeps his desires in a narrow, neglected drawer.

Look: we have to love God not only with our heart, but with His, and with the hearts of all humanity throughout time… Otherwise, we should fall short of corresponding to his Love.

If you had a big heart and were a bit more sincere you would not be troubled by feelings of mortification over little things — nor would you use them to mortify other people.

The thought of what has happened to you burns within you. Christ came to you when you were only a miserable leper! Until then, you had developed only one good quality, a generous concern for others. After that encounter you were given the grace to see Jesus in them, you fell in love with him, and now you love him in them… Now the altruism that used to impel you to help your neighbour in certain ways seems very small. You are right to think so!