'A good Christian watches continually, sword in hand.
The devil can do nothing against him, for he resists him like a warrior
in full armour; he does not fear him, because he has rejected from his
heart all that is impure. Bad Christians are idle and lazy, and stand
hanging their heads; and you see how they give way at the first assault:
the devil does what he pleases with them; he presents pleasures to
them, he makes them taste pleasure, and then, to drown the cries of
their conscience, he whispers to them in a gentle voice, "You will sin
no more." And when the occasion presents itself, they fall again, and
more easily than the first time. If they go to confession he makes them
ashamed, they speak only in half-words, they lower their voice, they
explain away their sins, and, what is more miserable, they perhaps
conceal some. The good Christian, on the contrary, groans and weeps over
his sins, and reaches the tribunal of Penance already half justified.'
