Livre de la vie by Teresa of Ávila
By Teresa of Ávila
Dans cette autobiographie spirituelle, achevée en 1562, Thérèse d'Avila montre los angeles valeur providentielle de ce qui lui arrive (son entrée au couvent, l. a. grave maladie qui l. a. frappe, ses visions, enfin sa réforme du Carmel). Consciente des contraintes de los angeles vie matérielle, elle a voulu que ses rookies sachent lire et écrire, afin d'accueillir des femmes d'esprit, capables de résister à l. a. tentation d'un mysticisme de pacotille. Elle a su unir, en un infrequent équilibre, spiritualité et motion. Si ce texte est toujours lu avec ardour, y compris par ceux qui ne partagent pas l. a. foi de son auteur, c'est en raison de sa portée universelle et de son originalité : l'exploration, par une femme, de son espace intérieur. Thérèse en a european l'intuition : dans le Livre de l. a. vie, elle ne s'adresse pas seulement à ses directeurs de sense of right and wrong mais à tous ceux qui vont los angeles lire. On découvre ainsi dans l. a. grande mystique espagnole un grand auteur.
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12. Neglect of watch over your fellow believers. How often have you broken your covenant that you would watch over them in the Lord! How little do you know or care about the state of their souls! And yet you are under a solemn oath to watch over them. What have you done to make yourself acquainted with them? In how many of them have you interested yourself, to know their spiritual state? Go over the list, and wherever you find there has been a neglect, write it down. How many times have you seen your fellow believers growing cold in religion, and have not spoken to them about it?
But when they are required to do anything that requires them to deny themselves — oh, that is too much! They think they are doing a great deal for God, and doing about as much as the Lord should reasonably ask. But they are not willing to deny themselves any comfort or convenience for the sake of serving the Lord. They will not willingly suffer hardship for the name of Christ. Nor will they deny TRUE CHRISTIANITY 41 themselves the luxuries of life, to save a world from hell. They are so far from remembering that self-denial is a condition of discipleship that they do not know what self-denial is.
Take a real Christian, one who has truly repented, and every time you bring the truth to bear upon him to break him down before God, he becomes more and more soft, affected, melted, and broken down under God’s blessed word, as long as he lives and to all eternity. His heart gets into the habit of following the convictions of his understanding, and he becomes as teachable as a little child. Here is the grand distinction. Let churches, or individual members, 30 TRUE AND FALSE REPENTANCE who have only this worldly repentance, pass through a revival6 , and be woken up, and bustle about, and then grow cold again.