slow
to
reveal
to
us
all
the
faults
we
commit.
We
have
no
sooner
sinned
than
we
feel
a
burning
reproach.
It
is
God
Himself
who
conducts
an
examination
which
nothing
escapes,
and
we
have
only
to
turn
towards
God,
and
suffer
the
pain
and
the
correction
which
He
gives.
As
this
examination
by
God
is
continual,
we
can
no
longer
examine
ourselves
;
and
if
we
are
faithful
to
our
abandonment
to
God,
we
shall
soon
be
better
examined
by
the
divine
light
than
we
could
be
by
all
our
own
efforts.
Experience
will
make
this
known.
One
thing
which
often
causes
astonishment
to
the
soul
is,
that
when
it
is
conscious
of
a
sin,
and
comes
to
confess
it
to
God,
instead
of
feeling
regret
and
contrition,
such
as
it
formerly
felt,
a
sweet
and
gentle
love
takes
possession
of
it.
Not
having
experienced
this
before,
it
supposes
that
it
ought
to
draw
itself
out
of
this
condition
to
make
a
definite
act
of
contrition.
But
it
does
not
see
that,
by
doing
this,
it
would
lose
true
contrition,
which
is
this
intuitive
love,
infinitely
greater
than
any-thing
it
could
create
for
itself.
It
is
a
higher
action,
which
includes
the
others,
with
greater
perfection,
though
these
are
not
possessed
distinctly.
