The Spiritual Combat: To which is Added, The Peace of the Soul, and the Happiness of the Heart, which Dies to Itself, in Order to Live to GodBernard Dornin, at the Catholic Bookstore, corner of Third and Walnut Streets, 1817 - 281 pages |
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Page 133 - So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh — for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.
Page 274 - Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 133 - Brethren : We are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die ; but if by the spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.
Page 1 - Spiritual Combat, to which is added, the Peace of the Soul, and ; the Happiness of the Heart, which dies to itself in order to live to God.
Page 175 - But let no day pass without imploring the assistance of Our Lady, the queen of all the saints, your guardian angel, the glorious archangel St. Michael, or any other saint to whom you have any particular devotion.
Page 1 - Soul, | and | the Happiness of the Heart, | which Dies to itself, | In order to | Live to God. The Life of Man upon earth is a warfare — Job.
Page 279 - Christian perfection ; carried it twenty years in his pocket, and read something in it every day, always with fresh profit, as he assures us. He strongly recommends it to others, in several of his letters. Scupoli concealed his name in this work, but it was prefixed to it by his superiors after his happy death, which happened in the convent of St. Paul, on the 28th of November, in the eightieth year of his age.
Page 3 - Saints those later ages have produced, St. Francis of Sales, for upwards of twenty years carried this book in his pocket, and never failed reading some pages of it every day : he called it his Director, and recommended it to all those who consulted him in the great affair of salvation.
Page 240 - O holy Solitude ! O happy Desert ! O glorious Hermitage, where the Soul may so easily enjoy its God ! Let us not only run thither, but beg the wings of the dove, that we may fly to it, and find a holy repose ; let us not stop by the way, let us not lose time in frivolous discourse with any one ; let us leave the dead to bury their dead, we fly to the land of the living, and have nothing to do with death.