And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?