(DOWNLOAD) "Select Lesser Known Writings" by William of St. Thierry # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Select Lesser Known Writings
- Author : William of St. Thierry
- Release Date : January 08, 2019
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 848 KB
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William’s teachings on spiritual life that it contains are invaluable for all those who wish to increase in communion with God and in holiness. In these treatises, points out how it is necessary, he says, to move on from the "animal" being to the "rational" one, in order to attain to the "spiritual". To start with, a person accepts the vision of life inspired by faith with an act of obedience and trust. Then, with a process of interiorization, in which the reason and the will play an important role, faith in Christ is received with profound conviction and one feels a harmonious correspondence between what is believed and what is hoped, and the most secret aspirations of the soul, our reason, our affections. One therefore arrives at the perfection of spiritual life when the realities of faith are a source of deep joy and real and satisfying communion with God. One lives only in love and for love. This the theme of many mystics throughout Christianity.