St. Francis de Sales says: “Praise be to Jesus.”

“Please realize that errors cannot be corrected unless they are first recognized as errors. So it is, in the spiritual life, self-knowledge is the catalyst of personal holiness. This is what the First Chamber of the United Hearts is – a recognition of faults and the purgation of these same faults.”

“The mount to spiritual perfection, then, is the recognition of the Truth as to the soul's state before God and the desire to overcome any imperfection. This, of course, is humility and Holy Love united.”

“Self-satisfaction propels the soul out of the First Chamber and farther away from the coveted Fifth Chamber – union with the Divine Will. Discouragement achieves the same end.”

“Truth bears the good fruit of hope in God's Mercy. The Flame of Our Mother's Heart is the Light of Truth which reveals error and purges the soul of every imperfection.”

“As the soul advances through the Sacred Chambers, he never leaves the Flame of Our Mother's Heart, but moves forward within Its embrace, ever being purged of imperfections. The Mother never abandons us.”