102.  If everybody should approve of you, but God disapproves of your conduct, how terrible for you!  If everybody should insult you, falsely accuse you or persecute you, but God praise you, happy are you, for the Kingdom of Heaven is yours (Lk 6:22).

103.  What use is it if everybody should affirm you, but God disapprove of you?  If everybody should mock you, but God affirms you, happy are you!  When the crowd cried out, "We must have Barabbas released!" (Lk 23:18), Barabbas remained a robber just the same.  When the crowd shouted, "Crucify Him!" (Lk 23:21), Our Lord was still the sinless Son of God.

104.  If you are faced with ungrateful people who have betrayed you and falsely accused you, what hurts you most is irrational malice which pours forth from those who you least expected to act thus.  Your reaction in such circumstances should be: to forgive right from the heart, to beg forgiveness for one's enemies, to pray with love for them to be converted, and then in this way you will not need to rely on the consolation of the world.

105.  Rejoice at your own success but thank God when someone else is more successful than you. 

106.  That which is foolishness in the eyes of men is wisdom in the eyes of God (1Cor 3:19, 1Cor 1:27).

107.  The Cross is foolishness to the Jews and a stumbling block to the Greeks.  But as for us, we glory in the Cross of Our Lord (1Cor 1:22-24, Gal 6:14).

108.  To spend the whole day in Church does not necessarily mean you are holy, if at that same time you still criticize others, you still react according to the wisdom of the world, or you are still self-centered.  John and James were with Our Lord often, but yet he still had to ask them, "Whose spirit do you have?" (Lk 9:55).

109.  Do not say, "I follow my conscience".  Is there any conscience left to follow?

110.  Poverty, obedience, mortification, meekness, charity, forgiveness and humility are all foolishness in the eyes of the world but supremely important in the eyes of God.  That which the world regards as a misfortune, God considers as true happiness.

111.  Look at everything from God's point of view and you will see things with different values and different perspective.

112.  In all activities and struggles that you might be engaged in, discern how to react by asking yourself: how much is there in this of desire to do God's will, how much of self-will?  Perhaps there is little of God in your endeavors.

113.  "It is for me to plant the seed, for Apollo to water it, but it was God Who gave the result" (1Cor 3:6). 

114.  If there is no resurrection, Catholics are the most unfortunate people in the world (1Cor 15:14,17,19).

115.  When you proclaim, "for God and for the Church", stand silently in the presence of God and honestly ask Him, "Lord, do you see me working completely for you?  You are the essential object of all that I do.  I should be ashamed to admit that there were any other stronger motive."

116.  As you have dedicated your self to the service of God, why do you still compare your life to the life of others, complaining about the inferiority of various circumstances of your life?  Why do you regret serving God because of some losses which you suffer?

117.  "Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name" - "Nevertheless, to rejoice because the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven." (Lk 10:17,20).