Consoling Thoughts on God

Name: Consoling Thoughts on God
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ISBN: 9780895552112

ISBN-10: 0895552116

ISBN-13: 9780895552112

Edition: N/A

Authors: Francis De Sales, Pere Huget

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In Consoling Thoughts on God and Providence, St. Francis de Sales, beloved Doctor of the Church, speaks of how God wants only good for us, and why we should have great confidence in His merciful love.This treasure of spirituality beautifully explains God s love for the sinner, how great His joy is upon the return of just one lost sheep, and how God s mercy extends even towards the damned. St. Francis encourages us to conform ourselves to God s will, and teaches us to abandon ourselves to the Lord who so desires our hearts.Readers of Consoling Thoughts on God and Providence will experience firsthand why St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) is known to history as the Gentle Saint. St. Francis was…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Publisher: TAN Books
Publication date: 1/24/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Publishers Preface


Preface to the Sixth French Edition



Introduction




The Inclination God Has to Do Us Good



The Eternal Love of God for Us



Confidence in God Founded on the Consideration Of Our Own Misery



God Has Given Us Everything with His Divine Son



The Love of Jesus in His Incarnation



The Love of Jesus in His Passion



Abundance of Our Redemption



Our Lord Practiced All the Most Excellent Kinds of Love



God Looks upon Us lovingly, notwithstanding Our Weakness



How Much Our Sweet Saviour Loved Every One Of Us Personally



Love of Jesus for Sinners



How Much the Mercy of God Appears in the Conversions of St Paul and David



How Great Is the Mercy of God on the Return Of the Sinner



How Full of Mercy God Is, even cowards The Damned



The Excellence of Abandonment to God



Conformity to the Will of God



Practice of Conformity to the Will of God



God Is Our Father



We Should Serve God Our Father for Love



How Jealous God Is of Our Heart



An Admirable Model of Perfect Abandonment



It Is Good to Abandon Oneself to Providence



Fear and Hope



A Will Perfectly Resigned



The Love of Submission, by which Our Will Is United to the Good Pleasure of God


Adieu of St. Francis dc Sales to the Pious Reader


Supplement



We Should Not Despair of the Salvation of Any Sinner



Sentiments of St Francis de Sales on the Number of the Elect



The Souls in Purgatory



Motives on account of which Imperfect Christians Ought Not to Fear Their Passage to Eternity, And May Even Desire It