Spiritual Exhortations and Counsels

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“Eminently suited for retreats and spiritual reading.”

“The doctrine is sound, the counsels are practical and teach a most solid piety.”

“Destined to fill an important place in the direction of pious souls.”

When the devil sees a soul resolved to serve God faithfully he does not inspire it to commit grace faults, - he would not succeed, but he endeavors to trouble its interior peace in order to render the spiritual life insupportable, and thence cause discouragement and despair. Even though he should not entirely succeed his triumph is sufficiently marked when he prevents the soul from making spiritual progress. It is then very important that you possess a true interior peace, on which to raise the edifice of your perfection, and that this peace may be solid and lasting, it should be founded on diffidence in one’s self and confidence in God; therefore this work is divided into parts: Interior Peace and Perfection.