Nothing is more important in the supernatural order than to have a deep, intense interior life. At times we run into the error of subordinating the interior life to the practice of the virtues, as if our contact with God were only a means to perfect ourselves. That is not so. Certainly prayer and all the other acts of the interior life have an efficacious influence on the acquisition of the virtues. From our relation with God we draw the strength to repel temptations, the
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