I command you to be happy even in your sins.

Brother, I command you:
to be happy, to learn to be happy
even in difficult circumstances, even in your sins.
Happy for the reality of God's mercy.
It is a great art not to succumb to oneself and despair,
to be happy that even from my sins God will deliver me
for His mercy.

(P. Benedikt Holota OFM /* 1922/,
notes from conversations with P. J. Ev. Urban OFM, June 1982)