List of points

Here is a point for your daily examination. Have I allowed an hour to pass, without talking with my Father God? Have I talked to him with the love of a son? You can!

We should make no mistake… God is no shadowy or distant being who created us then abandoned us; nor is he a master who goes away and does not return. Though we do not perceive him with our senses, his existence is far more true than any of the realities which we touch and see. God is here with us, really present, living. He sees and hears us, He guides us, and knows our smallest deeds, our most hidden intentions.

We believe this — but we live as if God did not exist. For we do not have a thought or a word for him; for we do not obey him, nor try to control our passions; for we do not show that we love him, and we do not atone…

—Are we going to continue living with a dead faith?

If you had presence of God you would remedy many things that have apparently “no remedy”.

How are you going to live in God’s presence if you are only looking around everywhere? — It is as if you were drunk with novelties and futilities.

It is possible that you might be frightened by this word: meditation. It makes you think of books with old black covers, the sound of sighs and the irksome repetition of routine prayers… But that is not meditation.

To meditate is to consider, to contemplate God as your Father, and yourself as his son in need of help. And then to give him thanks for all that he has given you and for all that he will give you.

This is the only way to get to know Jesus: speak to him! You will always find in him a Father, a Friend, an Adviser, a Helper in all the noble deeds of your everyday life.

—And getting to know Him will give rise to Love.

You go on attending some classes daily, merely because in them you acquire a certain rather limited knowledge… How is it then that you are not constant in going to the Master, who is always ready to teach you the science of interior life, with its eternal content and savour?

What is a man or the greatest reward on earth worth compared with Jesus Christ, who is always ready to be with you?

To meditate for a while each day and be united in friendship with God is something that makes sense to people who know how to make good use of their lives. It befits conscientious Christians who live up to their convictions.