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During his life, Francis de Sales had a gift for giving spiritual direction to lay people living ordinary lives in the world. He firmly believed that everyone could grow in holiness, even while engaged in very active occupations, and his books and volumes

The love of nature in our days has gone so far apart from Christian feeling. Men have forgotten that God's thoughts find expression in the visible, as well as in the invisible, world, and that inner and secret harmonies bind the natural and the supernatural together. The things of beauty which God has bidden arise on the earth lose half their grace, because men do not mount by them to the better understanding of the supernal beauty of the oper...

Complete edition of Introduction to the Devout Life by St Francis de Sales. In these very accessible contemplations, de Sales addresses all of us, in all walks of life, as if he was sitting with the reader at his table. This is a must read to think about our relationship with God, and something to own and contemplate over many years. To assist with understanding the middle English text, many words have been translated in the footnotes. "I have...

The love of nature in our days has gone so far apart from Christian feeling. Men have forgotten that God's thoughts find expression in the visible, as well as in the invisible, world, and that inner and secret harmonies bind the natural and the supernatural together. The things of beauty which God has bidden arise on the earth lose half their grace, because men do not mount by them to the better understanding of the supernal beauty of the oper...

Complete edition of Introduction to the Devout Life by St Francis de Sales. In these very accessible contemplations, de Sales addresses all of us, in all walks of life, as if he was sitting with the reader at his table. This is a must read to think about our relationship with God, and something to own and contemplate over many years. To assist with understanding the middle English text, many words have been translated in the footnotes. "I have...

Few among the Church's writers surpass St Francis de Sales in the skilful use of comparisons drawn from nature to illustrate the operations of grace in the spiritual life. This book brings together the choicest of St Francis's spiritual comparisons drawn from plants and flowers, forming a perfect treatise on the devout life, from its first faltering steps to its fulfilment, following the principles set out by the saint in his ascetical writing...

Complete five books about Reliance on God, in one Christian Omnibus volume. These specific books on Christian living resonate with readers though the ages. Now collected in one volume, they can be read again and again to help the reader's walk with God in reliance."Where God is all, self is nothing."Includes:Introduction to the Devout Life by St Francis De SalesThe Pursuit of God by A. W. TozerHumility by Andrew MurrayCalvin's Book on the Chri...

Complete five books about Reliance on God, in one Christian Omnibus volume. These specific books on Christian living resonate with readers though the ages. Now collected in one volume, they can be read again and again to help the reader's walk with God in reliance."Where God is all, self is nothing."Includes:Introduction to the Devout Life by St Francis De SalesThe Pursuit of God by A. W. TozerHumility by Andrew MurrayCalvin's Book on the Chri...

An Introduction to the Devout Life", a work intended to lead "Philothea", the soul living in the world, into the paths of devotion, that is to say, of true and solid piety. Every one should strive to become pious, and "it is an error, it is even a heresy", to hold that piety is incompatible with any state of life. In the first part the author helps the soul to free itself from all inclination to, or affection for, sin, in the second, he teache...

An Introduction to the Devout Life", a work intended to lead "Philothea", the soul living in the world, into the paths of devotion, that is to say, of true and solid piety. Every one should strive to become pious, and "it is an error, it is even a heresy", to hold that piety is incompatible with any state of life. In the first part the author helps the soul to free itself from all inclination to, or affection for, sin, in the second, he teache...

St. Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622) was a Bishop of Geneva, Switzerland, known for his deep faith and his soft approach in dealing with the religious divisions caused by the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th-century. He is particularly famous for his writings on the spiritual life. Among his many works, perhaps the most famous is, "The Introduction to the Devout Life." This classic text offers counsels and consoling thoughts, giving a wi...

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Known to be a prolific writer (he was proclaimed a patron saint of writers and journalists by Pope Pius XI in 1923), Francis de Sales wrote about what he loved most: God and faith. He was born in 1567, and was later destined to carry the title of the Bishop of Geneva before being canonized in Rome by Pope Alexander VII in 1665, forty three years after his death.The Secret of Sanctity teaches about the spirituality around the ritual of receivin...

A New Translation of an Enduring ClassicIn late 1608, St. Francis de Sales, the Catholic Bishop of Geneva, published his first edition of the Introduction to the Devout Life. It sold out quickly. In September of 1609, he published the second edition with additional material and revisions. A third edition was published in 1610, a fourth in 1616, and his fifth and final edition was published in 1619.On December 28th, 1622, St. Francis died at th...

A New Translation of an Enduring Classic:In late 1608, St. Francis de Sales, the Catholic Bishop of Geneva, published his first edition of the Introduction to the Devout Life. It sold out quickly. In September of 1609, he published the second edition with additional material and revisions. A third edition was published in 1610, a fourth in 1616, and his fifth and final edition was published in 1619.On December 28th, 1622, St. Francis died at t...

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This Treatise which I now present you, may be in some way serviceable to you, and that in it you will meet with many wholesome considerations which you would not elsewhere so easily find. We all look towards the glory of holy love. my intention is only to represent simply and naively, without art, still more without false colors, the history of the birth, progress, decay, operations, properties, advantages and excellences of divine love.