Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.