List of points

If you only knew what you are worth!… It is Saint Paul who tells you: you have been bought 'at a great price'. And he adds: 'That is why you should use your body for the glory of God'.

You are afraid of penance?… Of penance, which will help you to obtain Life everlasting. And yet, in order to preserve this poor present life, don't you see how men will submit to all the cruel torture of a surgical operation?

'Man's life on earth is a warfare': so said Job many centuries ago.

There are still some easy-going individuals who are not aware of the fact.

If in order to save an earthly life it is praiseworthy to use force to stop a man from committing suicide, are we not to be allowed use the same force — holy coercion — to save the Life (with a capital) of many who are stupidly bent on killing their souls?

How little a life is to offer to God!

You suffer in this present life, which is a dream, a short dream. Rejoice, because your Father-God loves you so much, and if you put no obstacles in his way, after this bad dream he will give you a good awakening.

A bad night, in a bad inn. That is how Saint Teresa of Jesus is said to have defined this earthly life. It's a good comparison, isn't it?

Always. For ever! Words brought to our lips by our human desire to prolong — to make eternal — what is pleasant.

Lying words, on earth, where everything must end.

All that this earth can offer us is continually passing away: hardly has pleasure begun than it is already ended.

If life's purpose were not to give glory to God, how contemptible, how hateful it would be.