Let it deliver me from all evil affection and inordinate love: and I shall walk with thee in great freedom of heart.
2. Christ. I will teach thee those things that are right and pleasing in my sight.
Think of thy sins with great displeasure and grief, and never esteem thyself any thing for thy good works.
Thou art in very deed a sinner, thou art subject to, and encumbered with many passions.
Of thyself thou always tendest to nothing: thou art quickly cast down, quickly overcome, quickly troubled, quickly dissolved.
Thou hast nothing wherein thou canst glory, but many things for which thou oughtest to despise thyself; for thou art much weaker than thou art able to comprehend.
3. Make no account therefore of any thing that thou dost.
Let nothing seem great, nothing precious and wonderful; let nothing seem worthy of estimation, nothing high, nothing truly praise-worthy and desirable, but that which is everlasting.
Let the eternal truth above all things please thee. Let thy own great unworthiness always displease thee.
Fear nothing, fly nothing so much as thy vices and sins.