If our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, who purchased us with His blood, reproaches us in very clear and intelligible fashion for our unfaithfulness and ingratitude because we are living according to the flesh and the world, because we are leading a soft and voluptuous life, or because we follow custom and opinion, let us then give ourselves up to his voice and let us not harden our hearts; let us not look for spiritual directors who comfort and reassure us against these reproaches and who conceal with pleasing clouds the light that wounds and penetrates us.