List of points

You give me the impression that you are carrying your heart in your hands, as if you were offering goods for sale. Who wants it? If it takes no creature's fancy, you will come and give it to God.

Do you think that is how the saints acted?

Creatures for you? Creatures for God: if for you, then let it be for God's sake.

Why stoop to drink in the pools of worldly consolation when you can quench your thirst in waters that spring up into life everlasting.

Detach yourself from people and things until you are stripped of them. For, says Pope Saint Gregory, the devil has nothing of his own in this world, and naked he comes to battle. If you go clothed to fight him, you will soon be pulled to the ground: for he will have something to catch you by.

It's as if your guardian Angel were saying to you: 'You fill your heart with so much human attachment!… And that, then, is what you want your Guardian to guard!'

Detachment. How hard it is! Oh, to be fastened by nothing but three nails and to have no more feeling in my flesh than the Cross I

Don't you feel that greater peace and closer union await you when you respond to that extraordinary grace which demands your total detachment?

Struggle for him, to please him: but strengthen your hope.

Go, generously and like a child ask him: 'What can you mean to give me when. you ask me for "this"?'

You are afraid of becoming cold and distant towards everyone. For you want to be so detached!

There is no need to worry: if you belong to Christ — completely to Christ! — from him you will get fire, light and warmth for all men.

Jesus isn't satisfied 'going halves': he wants the lot.

You won't submit to the will of God… and yet you fall in with the will of the most insignificant creature!

Surely there must be something wrong somewhere! If God gives himself to you, why are you so attached to creatures?