16 RULES TO BECOME A SAINT
1. A strong and ardent desire to become a saint.2. Great confidence in Jesus Christ and in his holy Mother.3. To avoid every deliberate sin or defect, and after a fault not to lose courage, but to make an act of contrition for it, and then resume your ordinary occupations.4. To cut off all attachment to creatures, to self-will, and self-esteem.5. To resist continually your own inclinations.6. To observe with exactness the rules of religion, however unimportant they may appear.7. To perform your ordinary duties with all possible perfection.8. To communicate often—with the permission of your director; to make long and frequent meditations, and to perform all the mortifications which he will permit.9. To prefer, on all occasions, those actions which are most agreeable to God, and most opposed to self-love.10. To receive all crosses and contradictions with joy and gladness from the hands of God.11. To love and serve those who persecute you. 12. To spend every moment of your time for God.13. To offer to God all your actions in union with the merits of Jesus Christ.14. To make a special oblation of yourself to God, that he may dispose of you and of all you possess in whatever way he pleases.15. To protest continually before God that his pleasure and love are the only objects of your wishes.16. Lastly, and above all, to pray continually, and to recommend yourself, with unbounded confidence, to Jesus Christ and to his Virgin Mother, and to entertain a special affection and tenderness towards Mary.From Saint Alphonsus
