February 26th
Book Three, Chapter 20
Of the Confession of Our Own Infirmity, and of the Miseries of This Life

Evil delights prevail over a mind that is given to the world, and under thorns she imagines there are delights: because she has neither seen nor tasted the sweetness of God, nor the internal pleasure of virtue.  But such as perfectly despise the world, and study to live to God under holy discipline, they are not unconscious of that divine sweetness promised to those who forsake all; and they clearly see both how grievously the world is mistaken, and in how many ways it is deceived.