It often happens that other presumptuous people think that they have no hope for themselves, and all their trust in God and rest in him alone with their confidence. In fact, it does not happen. In doing so, they can ascertain, judging by what happens in them and with them after they happen to fall sometime. If they mourned the fall, blaming and scolding myself at the same time, conspire: make and the consequences of the fall will be smoothed, and again everything goes as it should, then this is a sure sign that before the fall they had hoped for themselves and not on God. And the sorrow of them at the same time darker and more desolate, obletela that they too much relied on themselves and very little for God, because the sorrow of their fall and not soluble no joy. Who does not rely on himself, but trusts in God, when he falls, does not marvel too much at this and is not suppressed by excessive sorrow, for he knows that this happened to him, of course, because of his infirmity, but more than the weakness of his trust in God. Why, as a result of the fall, he increases his lack of hope for himself, but more than that, he tries to aggravate and deepen his humble trust in God; and then, hating the profane passions that were the cause of his fall, quietly and peacefully bears for insulting God and the works of repentance, armed with a strong trust in God, with the greatest courage and determination, pursuing his enemies even to death.
I would like to think about what has been said before this, that some persons who think of themselves, that they are virtuous and spiritual, who, when they fall into any sin, suffer and languish and do not find peace for themselves, and, having already exhausted themselves from this sadness and longing, occurring in them from anything else, as from self-love, run along the same again the impulse of self-love for their spiritual father, to be freed from such hardships. And they should have done it immediately after the fall, and done nothing else but to wash away the filth of sin that had offended God as soon as they wished, and to receive a new power against themselves, in the Holy Sacrament of repentance and confession.