Oh, this book is so good! Check out How to Profit From Your Faults by Tissot. So, to be perturbed after a sin is a very usual evil. To be humiliated by ones own miseries, a holy priest has said is a good thing, and few people understand it. To become agitated and to lose patience is something the whole world does, because self-love plays a major part in this kind of disquiet. One of the better exercises in meekness we can perform is when the subject is in ourselves. We must not fret over our own imperfections. Although reason requires that we must be displeased and sorry whenever we commit a fault, we must refrain from bitter, gloomy, spiteful, and emotional displeasure. Many are at fault in this way. When overcome by anger, they become angry at being angry. By this means they keep themselves steeped in passion. These fits tend to pride and self-love. We must be sorry for our faults, but in a calm, settled, firm way. A gentle rebuke has far greater power to correct than rage and passion.
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