Download or read book Characteristics of True Devotion by the Author of the Hidden Life of the Soul Transl written by Jean Nicolas Grou and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... other, and that the spiritual life is a perpetual warfare. Experience teaches him still more thoroughly. At the first attempt he learns how difficult it is to conquer himself; to struggle against his evil inclinations; how much time and effort the correction of the smallest fault requires; how much the practice of piety costs, notwithstanding his love for it; how much resistance he opposes to grace, by the weakness, the negligence, the unfaithfulness, of which he is guilty every day; how feeble his will; how transient his resolutions; how fruitless his good intentions; how strong over him are the dominion of the world, the flesh, and the Devil; and how, without special and continual help from God, he will surely fall! This experimental knowledge of himself, joined with the light he receives from above, inspires humility, which is nothing but the close conviction and consciousness of the fearful depth of corruption within, that age and opportunities have developed. The farther we advance, the deeper becomes this conviction, and the more humility takes root in the heart. Hence his contempt of himself, his salutary distrust of his own strength, the sincere preference he gives to others; believing them to be better than himself, or, at least, not doubting, that, if they had received the same grace, they would have much more profited by it. Hence, also, that confusion in view of the favor God bestows upon him, and of the esteem and affection of others, and the approbation they confer. Instead of exalting him, all this humbles and abases him. If he reflects upon himself, it is only to humble him the more. He is blind to his virtues, ignores his progress, attributes all his victories to God, and his failures to himself. CHAPTER XXI. Sttnpliettg...
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Download or read book Characteristics of True Devotion written by Nicholas Grou and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THOSE who are familiar with "The Hidden Life of the Soul," "The Science of the Cross," and "The Spiritual Maxims," will gladly hail another work by the same author. "The Spiritual Maxims," recently published in London, were written as a continuation or supplement to this work, the "Characteristics of True Devotion;" and in the closing chapter the author speaks of his purpose and intention of writing it. This is so eminently practical, and so perfectly adapted to all classes of Christians, it is hoped it will meet with the hearty approval its great merit deserves. For daily devotional reading it is very earnest and searching, and cannot fail to enrich and stimulate those who are endeavoring to lead a higher spiritual life. In all Pere Grou's writings there is a remarkable simplicity and directness; and they are so saturated with the mind and heart of Christ that no one can read them without feeling: that the Christian life is a very real and a very great thing, and by no means an easy thing, and that love and humility are its foundation-stones. In these religious works there is in the French a certain intensity of expression which is necessarily lost in the translation; but the translator of this little work has faithfully sought to catch the spirit of the author, and to reproduce it as closely as was possible in the cooler English tongue. A few passages, which seemed only adapted to the religious, and in no way suited to the secular, she has taken the liberty to omit. Trusting that her humble labor may be blessed, and that this little book may be the means of leading many souls up to a truer and higher devotion, she commends it to all earnest Christian readers.
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