February 3rd
Book Two, Chapter 9
Of the Want of All Consolation

It is not hard to despise all human consolation when we have divine.  But it is much, and very much, to be able to forego all comfort, both human and divine, and to be willing to bear this interior banishment for God's honor, and to seek oneself in nothing, nor to think of one's own merit....We love to have something to comfort us, and it is with difficulty that a man can put off himself.