List of points

This is the key to open the door and enter the Kingdom of Heaven: qui facit voluntatem Patris mei qui in coelis est, ipse intrabit in regnum coelorum — he who does the will of my Father… he shall enter!

Many great things depend — don't forget it — on whether you and I live our lives as God wants.

We are blocks of stone that can move and feel, that have a perfectly free will.

God himself is the stone-cutter who works on us, chipping off the rough edges, shaping us as he desires, with blows of the hammer and chisel.

Don't let us try to draw aside, don't let us want to escape his will, for in any case we won't be able to avoid the blows. We will suffer all the more, and uselessly— and instead of polished stone, ready for the work of building, we will be a shapeless heap of gravel that people will trample contemptuously under foot.

Resignation?… Conformity? Love for the will of God!

Accepting the will of God wholeheartedly is a sure way of finding joy and peace: happiness in the Cross. Then we realize that Christ's yoke is sweet and that his burden is not heavy.

Peace, peace, you tell me. Peace is… for men of 'good' will.

A thought which brings peace to the heart and which the holy Spirit suggests to those who seek the will of God: The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

What can worry the soul that sincerely repeats these words?

Free man, subject yourself to a voluntary servitude, so that Jesus won't have to say of you what we are told he said of others to Saint Teresa: 'Teresa, I wanted it… But men did not.'

An act of complete acceptance of the will of God: 'Is that what you want, Lord?… Then, it's what I want also!'

Don't hesitate: let your lips pronounce a heartfelt Fiat, 'be it done!', which will be the crown of your sacrifice.

The closer an apostle is to God, the more universal his desires. His heart expands and takes in everybody and everything in its longing to lay the universe at the feet of Jesus.

So much do I love your will, my God, that heaven itself, without your will — if such an absurdity could be — I would not accept.