Concise View of the Way to God
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Chapters 72
- converted, it begins to live by grace. ≈ 3 min
- reflect, and tells it that God is within, and must be sought there; ≈ 3 min
- soul, as it is a pledge of happiness to come; the road it is to pursue ≈ 3 min
- experience a salty knowledge. They never walk by the light of the ≈ 3 min
- have no appetite or liberty to go any other way; all else limits and ≈ 3 min
- and is easily hidden. This gives rise to great suffering, especially in ≈ 4 min
- influence, but walk in blindness, do they do the will of God? They ≈ 4 min
- stage to another, by a faith more or less certain, and experience ≈ 4 min
- purifies the attachment or tendency and natural taste that we have ≈ 3 min
- he so influenced it against itself that it had to cut off all its ≈ 3 min
- senses belongs to the second stage, which I have called the touch in ≈ 3 min
- has cost us so much trouble, and think ourselves forever relieved ≈ 3 min
- strength of resistance sinks and diminishes, and, as this stage ≈ 3 min
- and must follow the inward; so that when we are employed in active ≈ 3 min
- inward; and this is brought about by means of this strong stillness. ≈ 3 min
- and more frequent are our dry patches, and the greater our ≈ 3 min
- inward and outward desolation; for the one always follows the other. ≈ 4 min
- labour, is here gradually taken away. ≈ 4 min
- labour, is here gradually taken away. ≈ 4 min
- soul be willing to be so desolated as to die wholly to self. For an ≈ 4 min
- they suffer more distress than others, yet they have less reason to ≈ 4 min
- to do what we did in the earlier stages; as this increases, we begin to ≈ 4 min
- which is not essential, work then begins on what is essential; and as ≈ 4 min
- way so far has been to cause the soul to pass, from its complexity, ≈ 4 min
- continue with what is spiritual, and end by leading the soul ≈ 4 min
- the soul together, so that it cannot continue to spread among a ≈ 4 min
- without, and what is worst of all, is delivered over to temptations; ≈ 4 min
- fights, and defends himself as well as he can, always managing to ≈ 4 min
- good, all sorts of weaknesses, defencelessness, no inner refuge; God ≈ 4 min
- my will was not in harmony with the corruption of nature and the ≈ 4 min
- beginning of God's loving activity, nature and the senses became, as ≈ 4 min
- extent of the designs of God, without being anxious about ourselves, ≈ 4 min
- suffering and wretched state, it is then that God appears; and if any ≈ 4 min
- remissions, which, while they provide space for taking breath, make ≈ 4 min
- without support, we can do nothing but die in the arms of Love. ≈ 4 min
- living heat, which only gradually disappears. All states cleanse the ≈ 4 min
- happens gradually; we vibrate between life and death, being ≈ 4 min
- finds himself living, and can never afterward doubt that he was dead ≈ 4 min
- continually inward toward the centre, until, having reduced the soul ≈ 4 min
- not in itself, but in God; especially when the life is well advanced. ≈ 4 min
- there are some who do not pass through these painful deaths; they ≈ 4 min
- earlier purifications, which are, indeed, a death in relation to the life ≈ 4 min
- expression or conception. It is called a departure, a separation from ≈ 4 min
- from everything that would be an obstacle to its perfect union with ≈ 4 min
- mystical death is not complete until it has passed into God. Until ≈ 4 min
- the means that produce it. This distaste is felt whenever these ≈ 4 min
- which are exactly the opposite to those which used to keep us alive; ≈ 3 min
- is, lose every self-appropriation; for we never know how strongly we ≈ 3 min
- united to Him in truth without any intermediary; for in losing ≈ 3 min
- over it, that it can no longer do anything but what He pleases and as ≈ 3 min
- the moment of resurrection, when God, causing it to pass into Him, ≈ 3 min
- for clarity is opposed to faith, and they could not experience that, ≈ 3 min
- living seed, which is no other than the Life and Spirit of the Word, ≈ 3 min
- transformed into Him, as food is transformed into the one who has ≈ 3 min
- becomes annihilated in order to take on His. This goes on constantly ≈ 3 min
- attaches to the soul; giving his Love, full of Charity, to it. For the ≈ 3 min
- senses and faculties of their life to leave them dead; for though there ≈ 4 min
- remains, every means is left behind, and the future consists in our ≈ 4 min
- powers of the soul, and a cessation of every working, however ≈ 4 min
- experience. The soul is silent in the state of death, but its stillness is ≈ 4 min
- put off what it has. It receives willingly whatever impressions are ≈ 4 min
- these means; that they desire God only. He is anxious that they ≈ 4 min
- which we not only exist in God, but commune with Him. In a soul ≈ 4 min
- Trinity, where the Father of spirits imparts his spiritual creativity, ≈ 3 min
- it is not clear in reference to itself, but to those it speaks with; for ≈ 3 min
- inward and celestial life of the soul thus full of life in God, which He ≈ 3 min
- far advanced, that it goes its way without a thought for any creature ≈ 3 min
- them under the most abject humiliations and a feeble exterior, ≈ 3 min
- between God and the soul; it is no longer able to separate itself from ≈ 4 min
- a more extended quality in itself. Everything is expanded, God ≈ 4 min
- in Him; but it costs them nothing, for they will sacrifice everything ≈ 4 min
- paths; for, having no longer any anxiety about themselves, and ≈ 5 min
| Author | Unknown |
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| Language | English |
| Era | Classic |
| Categories | Christian Classics |
| Topics | Salvation & Grace |
| Chapters | 72 |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |
| Status | Public Domain |
Public Domain.