"You are in a room. The room is lined with books — all good ones, all written in favor of God. There are people seated in the room, all average intelligence. You have read four of the books. You go to the wall and you choose a book you have read. To cover the complete book, in its full meaning, takes twelve hours. This goes on until the four books are completed. You have used volumes of words to recapture the knowledge to deliver to man. By this time man is saturated and each man is aware of only a few thoughts, and by this time he would run when he saw you again.

You have learned a lesson and you are now talking to more. You say to one man, ‘Walk to the wall and choose one of the books, and each of you do likewise,’ and you say, ‘Please read the books and we will discuss the contents.’ The day comes, discussion begins, and each man takes his turn. What they say will be what they’ve received from the reading, but part of it, that they’ve walked to the wall and made their choice, and that they’d read the book.

When a child teaches others to love God, words of knowledge are given, words of direction proposed for them to accomplish an end. The child says, ‘Kneel, pray, go to The Father.’ She does not say, ‘I kneel, I pray, I go to The Father.’ What purpose, what help would the children get if they were not encouraged to perform the act themselves?

On your next visit to the House of God, kneel before Him and say:

‘I come to You, my God, because I love You, because I need You. Help me to be an example in Your Way. Help me to teach others how to pray. Help me to know what I should do to lead them to You on their way.’

Each child born to the world should perform his own acts of love for God. He must be taught to serve God himself. He cannot rely on another’s prayers solely for fulfillment of life. If all men are taught to stand in this way, to walk their steps themselves, to seek God themselves, Purgatory would be less crowded and fewer souls occupying Hell. Teach man to think, to do, to love for himself; not self-love, but to be in the feeling, in the love, in the knowing that what he is doing is his personal way to God. So be it."