Gueranger:
It is evident that the Christian, who would spend Septuagesima according to the spirit of the Church, must make war upon that false security, that self-satisfaction, which are so common to effeminate and tepid souls, and produce spiritual barrenness.
Met. Antony Bloom:
“God can save the sinner you are, but not the saint you pretend to be.”
The Ostende Blog - Fr Christopher Young 