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These are the first temptations of beginners. But, another and more dangerous stratagem still is this; the tempter seeks accomplices, and too frequently finds them amongst good people. In the way of our good resolutions he throws people not wanting in a sort of wisdom, nor in good intention, who find something to carp at in everything that grace inspires in our souls to take them out of the ordinary groove. To listen to these counselors, who are the more eager to offer their advice the tory burch handbags discount  less they are asked for it, one would think that to aim at perfection is to make yourself remarkable in a dreadful way. We ought never, say they, to exaggerate, nor to undertake a course of life contrary to nature; what is out of the common never lasts, and exaggeration is blamable in everything. I do not hesitate to say that this is one of the greatest obstacles to divine grace that souls called to perfection can encounter. It is human respect in the cloister, which in its way, is as dangerous as that in the world, and no less prevents the conversion of souls from imperfection to sanctity, than the latter prevents the conversion from bad to good. By what means can these dangers be avoided? By these. We must overcome, courageously, for the love of Jesus Christ, the impressions made on us by a false human respect, and make a generous sacrifice of them to our Lord, begging Him to help and sustain us that we may despise all these foolish remarks.

 It is enough to compare the maxims of the Gospel with the captious sophisms to which they are opposed, to convince ourselves that they cannot possibly proceed from the Spirit of God but only from human reasons, and that carnal spirit which is reprobated by God. But those who talk like this are pious people. That may be, but it only proves that some pious  Tory Burch Caroline Bags people do not always judge things by the pure light of the Gospel, but allow themselves to be deceived by false prejudices, and natural considerations, by interested selflove, error, blindness, or ignorance. They must, in fact, of necessity, be very ignorant and very blind not to perceive that there never has been a true conversion nor real change of heart that escaped notice either in the world or in religion.

And why are these conversions noticeable when they are real? It is because they, necessarily, extend to the regulation of outward conduct, and even if there were nothing in the outward conduct that required regulating, the perfect order and heavenly peace restore to the soul would be manifested by infallible signs by which the good would be edified, but which, perhaps, would irritate the jealous selflove of others. One must needs be voluntarily blind not to see that at the beginning of a new life one's conduct may seem constrained and uneasy, for this reason; because neither the person who is changed, nor others, are Tory Burch Classic Print Bags  accustomed to an altered way of acting. In all things ease comes with habitude. Besides, how can a soul which is entirely employed in keeping recollected, in fighting against itself, in compelling itself to do violence in a hundred different ways, both interior and exterior, be expected to appear gay, free, happy, agreeable, and amusing? Truly, if I saw it like this I should have strong doubts as to any interior change whatever. However there are some people who are very interior, and at the same time appear very gracious outwardly.

Eher als stellen Sie die Seelen, die er mit einer Liebe der Befangenheit zu solch einem ängstlichem Unglück liebt, Gott schickt ihnen alle Art von Versuchen heraus. Er schlägt sie, demütigt sie und bildet sie verächtlich in ihren eigenen Augen. Aber, wie überreichlich er nicht die ausgleicht, die während der Versuche zuverlässig bleiben, denn  moncler jacken frauen die Nöte, die sie ausgehalten haben! Wenn, durch eine komplette Zerstörung von one' s-vollständiges geistiges Vermögen, man findet sich verringert auf nichts, dann entdeckt eins plötzlich, dass man weder Eitelkeit, Vermutung noch Selbstachtung hat, aber wird mit Misstrauen, Bescheidenheit, Vertrauen im Gott und Liebe für ihn gefüllt; und diese Liebe ist dann absolut rein, weil Selflove nichts hat, sich auf zu lehnen, und infolgedessen nichts, zu werden angebracht zu, oder zu verderben.

Folglich stellte ich mehr Wert auf Ihrer anwesenden Armut als auf allen jenen ehemaligen schönen Gefühlen ein, von denen Ihnen so tadellos rein schienen, aber, von welchen geheim Ihr Selflove seine köstlichste Weide bildete. 2. Er scheint manchmal als ob man weder Glauben, Hoffnung noch Nächstenliebe hatte und als ob man ohne Religion, ohne irgendeinen Vorzug waren, als ob man alles Wissen des Gottes verloren hatte. Dieses geschieht, wenn er, alle Freude, allen Unction zurückzunehmen sich freut, und alles, der vernünftig ist, sie im Wesentlichen der Seele liegen zu lassen, und ihr zu ermöglichen  moncler weste herren voranzubringen durch die Praxis des reinen Glaubens. Dann ist es, dass Gott im Geist und in der Wahrheit gedient und verehrt wird, wie Jesus Christus zur Frau von Samaria sagte: Dieser Zustand ist sogar entfernt von den Richtungen weiteres und ist folglich wertvoller, höher, gereinigt und fester. In ihm können die reinen Freuden des Geistes genossen werden; aber dieses soll durch die Not alles vernünftigen Vergnügens nur erreicht werden, kann eine vernünftige Hingabe durch die Not des sinnlichen und irdischen Vergnügens nur genossen werden.

In diesem Zustand jedoch gibt es immer Frieden, weil die Seele dann im Gott hergestellt wird und glaubt, gerade während Sie sich fühlen; Ich bedeute ein Geheimnis und eine versteckte Energie, die von der innersten Anwesenheit des Gottes fortfahren, und diese Unterstützung, unverkennbar, obwohl sie ist, bildet eine Seele stärker als, als sie sich glaubte vorzubereiten, um Martyrium auszuhalten. Bleiben Sie so im Frieden und segnen Sie Gott. 3. Was die unzählbaren Taten anbetrifft des Angebots, der Resignation, des etc., ohne Zweifel sind sie verwendbar, damit Anfänger eine Gewohnheit der Herstellung moncler jacken  sie bilden; aber in Ihrem aktuellen Stand werden sie vorbei und in Ihrem Herzen und fast ohne Ihr an es zu denken gebildet. Nicht sieht Gott alle Ihre Absichten, sogar das meiste Geheimnis, ohne sie zu haben erklärte ihm durch, was formale und Eiltaten genannt werden? Wenn, inmitten Ihrer guten Arbeiten irgendeine geheime Absicht von Selflove, von Stolz oder von menschlichem Respekt in Ihr Herz sich unterstellt, weit von die Herstellung Eiltaten Sie würde sich bemühen, von selbst diese perversen Absichten zu verstecken, überzeugt, dass Gott sieht, und wird sie bestrafen; glauben Sie nicht dann, dass er auch Ihre geheimen guten Absichten sieht und dass er bei der Vergütung so liberal ist, da er bei der Bestrafung streng ist?

It is this that we notice in Jesus, Mary and Joseph. In their separate lives there is more of love than of greatness, and more of the spirit than of the matter. It is not written that they sought holiness in things themselves, but only in the motive with which they used them. It must therefore be concluded that one way is not more perfect than another, but that the most perfect is that which is most closely in conformity with the order established by God, whether by the accomplishment of  ghd australia outlet exterior duties, or by interior dispositions.Conclusion of the first chapter. How easy sanctity becomes when this doctrine is properly understood. I believe that if those souls that tend towards sanctity were instructed as to the conduct they ought to follow, they would be spared a good deal of trouble. I speak as much of people in the world as of others. If they could realize the merit concealed in the actions of each moment of the day: I mean in each of the daily duties of their state of life, and if they could be persuaded that sanctity is founded on that to which they give no heed as being altogether irrelevant, they would indeed be happy.

 If, besides, they understood that to attain the utmost height of perfection, the safest and surest way is to accept the crosses sent them by Providence at every moment, that the true philosophers stone is submission ghd boho  to the will of God which changes into divine gold all their occupations, troubles, and sufferings, what consolation would be theirs! What courage would they not derive from the thought that to acquire the friendship of God, and to arrive at eternal glory, they had but to do what they were doing, but to suffer what they were suffering, and that what they wasted and counted as nothing would suffice to enable them to arrive at eminent sanctity: far more so than extraordinary states and wonderful works.

O my God! how much I long to be the missionary of Your holy will, and to teach all men that there is nothing more easy, more attainable, more within reach, and in the power of everyone, than sanctity. How I wish that I could make them understand that just as the good and the bad thief had the same things to do and to suffer; so also two persons, one of whom is worldly and the other leading an interior and wholly spiritual life have, neither of them, anything different to do or to suffer; but ghd red  that one is sanctified and attains eternal happiness by submission to Your holy will in those very things by which the other is damned because he does them to please himself, or endures them with reluctance and rebellion. This proves that it is only the heart that is different.