List of points

I ask God that you may take as your model Jesus as an adolescent and as a young man, both when he disputed with the doctors in the Temple and when he worked in Joseph’s workshop.

Jesus’ thirty-three years!…: thirty were spent in silence and obscurity; in submission and work…

That big young man wrote to me saying: “My ideal is so great that only the sea could contain it.” I answered: “And what about the Tabernacle, which is so ‘small’; and the ‘common’ workshop of Nazareth?”

—It is in the greatness of ordinary things that He awaits us!