CONTENTS: The Advantage of Humiliation How to bear Suffering, so as to preserve our peace The Beauty of the Cross The Death of Self Peace lies in Simplicity and Obedience The True Source of Peace is in the Surrender of the Will True Good is only reached by Abandonment Knowledge puffeth up. Charity edifieth We are not to choose the manner in which our blessing shall be bestowed The Discovery and Death of Self The Sight of our Imperfections should not take away our Peace Living by the Cross and by Faith Despair at our Imperfections is a greater Obstacle than the Imperfection itself Pure Faith sees God alone Our Knowledge stands in the way of our becoming wise Those who endeavor to injure us are to be Loved and Welcomed as the Hand of God Quietness in God our True Resource True Friendships are Founded only in God The Cross a Source of our Pleasure The Absence of Feeling and the Revelation of Self no sufficient Cause of Distress The Imperfection of others to be borne in Love The Fear of Death not taken away by our own Courage, but by the Grace of God Sensitiveness under Reproof the Surest Sign we Needed it Imperfection only is Intolerant of Imperfection We should Listen to God and not to Self-love Absolute Trust the Shortest Road to God The Time of Temptation and Distress is no time to form resolves Who has Love, has All Weakness preferable to Strength, and Practice better than Knowledge Beware of the Pride of Reasoning; The True Guide to Knowledge is Love The Gifts of God not to be Rejected on Account of the Channel that brings them Poverty and Spoilation the Way of Christ The Will of God our only Treasure Abandonment not an Heroic Sacrifice, but a Simple Sinking into the Will of God Daily Dying takes the Place of Final Death Suffering belongs to the Living, not the Dead The Limits of our Grace are those of our Temptation Resisting God an Effectual Bar to Grace God speaks more effectually in the Soul than to it The Circumcision of the Heart | Spiritual Letters by Francis Fenelon, Paperback | Indigo Chapters