120. In order to become a good brother of Charity, you must energetically overcome all that is repulsive to nature, you must continually fight against your self-love, your own will, your natural desires and your listlessness.

121. Do the jobs which disgust you the most. Desire them. Forget your body and its comforts, forget everything that you take pleasure in, forget yourself entirely.

122. Those who mark out the way of perfection for others must be ready to put up with their liveliness and unreasonableness and receive ingratitude as a reward.

123. Mortify your self-love and your own will. Let God dispose of you by the will of your superiors. Religious perfection lies essentially in this.

124. In order to uproot a young tree, it is enough just to want to do it and make a little effort. A fully grown tree does not give in, even with the ax's blows.

125 It is the same with our passions. The first movements can be controlled by a firm resolution and moderate effort. But passions that have been satisfied for a long time take root; simple good will is not enough to subjugate them; they need a long and painful purification.

126. Each time we must perform an action, we must put ourselves loyally before God and ask Him : Lord, what do you want me to do? We must accomplish what in His light we find to be His will, in spite of the opposition of the carnal I.

127. Man behaves so stupidly! Very often he goes and asks advice from the inferior I and he examines his egoistic heart with these words : Does what I am doing please you?

128. To forget ourselves means : to offer no resistance; to suffer all that God allows, not to hinder the realization of His plans for us.

129. To renounce ardently and perseveringly the natural bent of our intelligence and judgment, our will and our heart, in order to submit to the opinions and desires of others, as long as they do not incite us to evil.