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The Spiritual Combat: Together with The Path of Paradise, or, Of Inward Peace is unavailable, but you can change that!

This classic work of Catholic piety offers practical reflections for waging spiritual warfare and securing inner peace. “The earnestness of the religious revival in the south of Europe in the sixteenth century, which was commenced soon after the great schism in the Church, is well illustrated by this marvelous work of Lorenzo Scupoli … After many years of the active duties of his calling, during...

IN this conflict, so necessary to thee is distrust of self, that unless thou he furnished with it thou wilt assuredly be unable not only to gain the victory, but even to overcome the very weakest of thy passions. And let this be well impressed on thy mind, inasmuch as our corrupt nature too easily disposes us to a false estimate of ourselves; so that while we are in reality absolutely nothing, we flatter ourselves that we are something, and, without the slightest foundation,
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