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Book cover for The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims
That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether he lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul ...more
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This looks like an amazing book for these times. Someone dropped off a donation of books to me for our church library just before "Shelter in Place" went in effect for our area. This book is among the…
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You will get so much out of it!
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I return to this book over and over and over again and every time it leaves me more content, more patient, closer to God.
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Francis de Sales
“certain persons have made a great mistake when, seeking to cultivate some special virtue, they attempt to obtrude it on all occasions, like the ancient philosophers we read of, who were always laughing or weeping. Worse still if they take upon themselves to censure those who do not make a continual study of this their pet virtue.”
Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life - Enhanced Version

Brother Lawrence
“The Presence of God is an applying of our spirit to GOD, or a realization of GOD as present, which is borne home to us either by the imagination or by the understanding.”
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims

Francis de Sales
“This unresting anxiety is the greatest evil which can happen to the soul, sin only excepted.”
Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life - Enhanced Version

Francis de Sales
“Be bold and resolute then in performing the spiritual exercises I have set before you, and God will give you time and strength for all other duties, yea, even if He were to cause the sun to stand still, as He did in Joshua’s time. 211 We are sure always to do enough when God works with us.”
Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life - Enhanced Version

Francis de Sales
“Those who keep careful watch over their conscience are not often liable to form rash judgments, for just as when the clouds lower the bees make for the shelter of their hive, so really good people shrink back into themselves, and refuse to be mixed up with the clouds and fogs of their neighbour’s questionable doings, and rather than meddle with others, they consecrate their energies on their own improvement and good resolutions. No surer sign of an unprofitable life than when people give way to censoriousness and inquisitiveness into the lives of other men.”
Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life - Enhanced Version

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