January 25th
Book One, Chapter 25
Of the Fervent Amendment of Our Whole Life

 There is one thing that keeps many back from spiritual progress, and from fervor in amendment; namely, a dread of the difficulty or of the labor that is necessary in the struggle.
And assuredly they especially advance beyond others in virtue, who strive the most manfully to overcome the very things which are the hardest and most contrary to them....
Watch over yourself, stir yourself up, admonish yourself, and whatever may become of others, neglect not yourself.