The sin you see is real, but it is yet not very near you since you so abhor it; and if you pray that you may hate it, it will go further from you till you may hope not even to understand how it could once have been so near.

Take courage--take comfort.

Do not be morbid.
Resist temptation, but do not analyse it nor yourself too closely; for it is one of the chief signs of evil in us that when we dwell too much upon ourselves and upon our temptations, we ourselves seem good in our own eyes, and our temptations not unpleasant, because the very resisting of them seems to make us appear better than we are." But the tears still flowed from Corona's eyes in the dark corner of the church, and she could not be comforted.
"Padre mio," she repeated, "I am very unhappy.

I have not a friend in the world to whom I can speak.

I have never seen my life before as I see it now.