Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Spiritual Retreat
Again, to see further the need of a Retreat. You are often listening to the word of God, whether in sermons, conferences, or holy books. Our Lord's words strike you in the Gospel. The beautiful sentences of the Imitation speak to your soul. One Spiritual book after another you take up and you feel they are all good and true, and all help you more or less towards desires for better things. Yet somehow the things come and go. You do not assimilate them. They do not become part of yourself; it is something like writing on wax. It is almost like writing on sand. In a week or two the things are for gotten. If our souls were more solid and con sistent - more like the hard polished granite - the impressions would remain a hundred years. Now the Retreat is to make you into something better, to bring you to more consistency and stability in spiritual life, and to give you impressions that will really be effectual and durable. But take care this time not to be so heedless over the things of God within you; your heart must be in them they come in no second place. Divine things are not to be trified with. God requires that we should respond to Him, and work with Him.
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