List of points

Draw close to Jesus who has died for you; draw close to that Cross, outlined against the sky on the summit of Golgotha…

But draw close sincerely and with interior recollection, which is the sign of Christian maturity. That way the divine and human events of the Passion will sink deep into your soul.

I will never share the opinion — though I respect it — of those who separate prayer from active life, as if they were incompatible.

We children of God have to be contemplatives: people who, in the midst of the din of the throng, know how to find silence of soul in a lasting conversation with Our Lord, people who know how to look at him as they look at a Father, as they look at a Friend, whom they love madly.

Don’t let yourself be distracted, don’t give free rein to your imagination. Live the life within you and you will be closer to God.