Do you want to be a fire, a flame? Then do violence only to yourself.

Do you want to live in the truth, and do you want fulfillment? Then stop looking at the secular world and its egocentric, selfish, me-centered reality, and begin to practice, to incarnate, to exercise in your daily life the words of Jesus Christ.

Do you want your "rights"? Do you want justice? Do you want to be a person? Then die to yourself and sacrifice your whole life for the sake of the kingdom.

Do you want to live with childlike simplicity and know a peace, a joy, an inner reality that no one can take from you? Then wash your mind in the truth of Jesus Christ, discipline your reactions to your brothers and sisters, and submit any request that comes your way to these criteria:

What is Jesus Christ offering me at this moment?

What is he saying to me at this moment?

What is he trying to give me at this moment?

—From Inflamed by Love, pp. 206-207, available from Madonna House Publications.