resolution

106 The same can be said of your resolutions, Which are Equally Necessary to render the confession valid. These resolutions must be constant and efficacious, but can not be so without the special help of God. Do you ever think of humbling yourself and asking for that help, and Confessing Knowing your weakness and instability, and that you 'are not capable of yourself to keep the smallest resolution, from morning till night Either or even from one hour to another?
It is for This reason so that you 'Often fall over and over again into the same faults, Because you are lacking in humility. The truly humble man is altogether diffident acerca himself, and putting trust in God All His, is Helped in The most admirable way by Him. "Humble thyself to God and wait for His hands." [Ecclus xiii, 9]
How many times do you not say: "I have taken This firm resolution, and I mean to keep it, I am not afraid of breaking it," iniquitously trusting in yourself, without the mind-bending Divine help in any way? Take care that you 'May not Be Counted Among Those reprobates "Who Were Their Own destroyed trusting to strength." [Ecclus xvi, 8] If you even boasts only a little upon yourself, That Little can be the cause of great ruin, According to the prediction of Job: "They are lifted up for a little while, and Shall not stand, and Shall brought` be down. " [Job xxiv, 24]