March 21st
Book Three, Chapter 43
Against Vain and Worldly Learning

Attend to My words, which inflame hearts and enlighten minds, which excite to compunction and afford manifold consolations.  Never read anything in order that you may appear more learned or more wise.  Study the mortification of your vices; for this will more avail you than the knowledge of many difficult questions.  I am He who teaches men knowledge, and who gives a more clear understanding to little ones than can be taught by man....I teach without noise of words, without confusion of opinions, without ambition of honor, without strife of arguments.  I am He who teaches to despise earthly things, to loathe things present, to seek the things eternal, to relish the things eternal, to fly honors, to endure scandals, to repose all hope in Me, to desire nothing out of Me, and above all things ardently to love Me.