Page 39 - briciole-d-oro

37
27
To will this is our motto. But it must be a
wholehearted, efficacious, unswerving will; a will
that, to quote Dante, “... kept Lawrence on the grill
and made Mutius cruel to his hand ...” (Letters 9)

28
With hard work and good will the past can serve as an
instrument for the future. (Letters 9)

29
Man's potential is without limit. It all depends on the
value of the coefficient: two factors that are multiplied, are
joined together, and are transformed into one great
product. (Letters 9)

30
Christ in our hearts is an infinite coefficient. And we, poor
zeros that are, can gradually multiply ourselves to the level

of infinity. (Letters 11)
31
If Gregory VII, son of a poor cooper, succeeded in shaking
up the world and founding a new civilization on the ruins
of barbarism, it was all because he felt the power of his
daily combination with God, which gave him, human though he was,
a divine strength. (Letters 9)