Use, Lord, the moments when you are with me to change my heart. Replace my old, hard, small, selfish, and miserable heart with your heart: large, generous, noble, beautiful, and rich. What comes from my poor sick heart fills me with disgust. I would like to wake up feeling that your heart beats within me. How different the world around me would seem! In everything that surrounds me, I would find an entirely new nobility. How I would long for the Father! How merciful I would be to my brothers!
(Carlo Carretto /1910–1988/, diary entry from August 12, 1955)
