Now if we are His children, we must follow Him; like Him, we must embrace poverty, humiliations, and sufferings, detaching ourselves from all that’s not God, and being united with our neighbor through charity in order to be untied with God himself through Jesus Christ. That’s what all these teachings prompt us to do; then we’ll be building on rock, with the result that the temptations of our passions will not cause our downfall, as they usually do to those who base their conduct on the maxims of the world.
