It is not enough to hate our failings or our vices with a perfect hatred.   We must love something else.

Love is the death of all bitter and unholy moods of the soul,

THE secret of success consists not in the habit of making numerous resolutions about various faults and sins, but in one great, absorbing, controlling purpose to serve God and do His will! 

The first step towards the inner life is to attain a childlike spirit in Heavenly things… 

Selfishness is calm, a force of nature:  you might say the trees are selfish.   But egoism is a piece of vanity

It is notorious that a man may go on uttering false assertions about his own acts till he at last believes in them:  

BEWARE of despairing about yourself.

If we esteem our obedience to rule, and self-imposed restraints, for their own sake, we effectually destroy their power to train and elevate.

AND be you sure that sorrow without resolute effort at amendment is one of the most contemptible of all human frailties;