Of the Love of God

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Rivingtons, 1888 - 420 pages
 

Contents

The conformity of submission proceeding from the love of benevolence 252
254
How to conform to Gods Will when it is signified to us
256
CHAP
258
How love for Gods Will as signified in His Command
264
How to conform to Gods Will as signified by inspiration
272
Obedience to the Church and to those set over us
279
Mans will is best united to Gods Good Pleasure amid
286
Holy indifference embraces all things
292
CHAP PAGE VI The practice of loving indifference in what concerns Gods Own service
294
Holy indifference as to progress in virtue
297
The union of our will with that of God in His sufferance of sin
300
How to exercise indifference even in what concerns holy things
302
How to test the reality of this holy love
303
The trouble of a loving heart which knows not whether it is pleasing to the Beloved
305
Amid such interior trials the soul cannot realise its own love of God or the spiritual death that selfwill is undergoing
307
The will once dead to self lives solely in Gods Will
309
The death of the will
311
The best course we can take amid the interior and exterior troubles of life when the will is dead to self
313
The perfect selfrenunciation of the soul which is united to Gods Will
315
BOOK X
318
This commandment is of Heaven although it is given to the faithful on earth
320
The heart which is filled with love of God will love all else in Him
321
Two manners of perfection of love in this mortal life
324
Two yet higher degrees of the love of God above all else
326
All who really love will alike love God above all things
329
Continuation of the same subject
330
Wherein the strength and virtue of sacred love lie
332
Testimony of Holy Scripture to this assertion
334
We ought to love God far more than ourselves
336
CHAP PAGE
338
Our zeal or jealousy for our Lord
344
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346
Concerning certain saints whose zealous indignation
350
BOOK XI
357
The exceeding excellence which love imparts to those
366
Charity comprehends all virtues
372
Gods Love if renewed in the Soul revives all that
381
All our actions should be done in the light of love
384
How far servile fear may abide with holy love
391
Sadness is for the most part unprofitable and even
401
He who would long after Gods Love must check worldly
408
Further means of working all things for
415

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Page 133 - I WILL bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Page 135 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia ; for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Page 104 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor...
Page 149 - O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the stairs, Let me see thy countenance, Let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, And thy countenance is comely.
Page 54 - Wisdom crieth without ; she uttereth her voice in the streets : She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates : In the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity ? And the scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge...
Page 261 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 66 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil : for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
Page 64 - Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink : thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
Page 58 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 176 - Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks : so longeth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God...

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