John Tauler · 115 of 121

The third way of a poor, perfect life, when you contemplate God internally, is, that a man do not fly from what may kill him in spiritual things. · 102.

Sixthly, a man in guarded from temporal sins by his own heart when it is inflamed with the love-fire of the Holy Ghost, for this consumeth all unlikeness in man, making him pure from all sins. Love and hatred cannot subsist together. If a man loveth, he must leave all that begetteth hatred, namely, sin; as long as he now loveth, he liveth also without sin. St. Paul saith, “Charity is a consuming fire.”