There Are Three
Principal Reasons Why We Find Ourselves Desolate
The
first is, because of our being tepid, lazy or negligent in our spiritual exercises;
and so through our faults, spiritual consolation withdraws from us.
The
second, to try us and see how much we are and how much we let ourselves out in
His service and praise without such great pay of consolation and great graces.
The
third, to give us true acquaintance and knowledge, that we may interiorly feel
that it is not ours to get or keep great devotion, intense love, tears, or any
other spiritual consolation, but that all is the gift and grace of God our
Lord, and that we may not build a nest in a thing not ours, raising our
intellect into some pride or vainglory, attributing to us devotion or the other
things of the spiritual consolation.'
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