List of points

In the same way that many go to see first stones being laid, without bothering about whether the works then begun will ever be finished, sinners deceive themselves with their “last times”.

When it is a matter of “breaking off” — never forget it — the “last time” has to be the one before, the one that has already happened…

That confessor was a bit rough, but he was experienced and contained the ravings of a soul and brought them to order. He brought him to his senses by saying: “The way you are now means you are going the ways of cows; next you will be content to go the way of goats; and then… always like an animal which doesn’t know how to look up to heaven.”

Perhaps you are… just what you are, a little animal. —But you must admit that there are people of integrity who are chaste. Well, don’t get upset then, if they leave you out of things. Those men and women include in their human plans people with a body and a soul, not animals.

No one is more of a man or more of a woman for leading a disordered life.

Obviously anyone who thinks so would find their ideal of a person in a prostitute, or someone who was perverted and corrupt — that is in those who have rotten hearts and cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

How can you be at peace if you allow passions you do not even attempt to control to drag you away from the “pull” of grace?

Heaven pulls you upwards; you — only you, and don’t seek excuses! — downwards… —If you go on like that you will tear yourself apart.