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Jesus can help us to keep our balance, when we are about to fall into pride or despair

How to Pray, Part Two: Liturgy and Morals

My Priests are Sacred

Teachings-in-Prayer Volume Four: Spiritual Life

Whenever we humbly reveal our true concerns to the Lord we open a door in our soul and let in His wonderful light

Even in the darkness of our sufferings Jesus comforts and guides us

There are two gates to open in the spiritual life. The soul's first gate is opened by our co-operating with Christ's grace. The second is opened by costly effort, if we are fruitful.

By true contrition and selfless worship we can break through to meet the living, radiant Christ within our childish mental images

By true contrition and selfless worship we can break through to meet the living, radiant Christ within our childish mental images

We can only find God in the present moment, and not by losing ourselves in the past or future

Amidst the high mountain-tops of the spiritual life is a fertile valley: God's garden. "This is Eden".

In the spiritual life, a staircase lies ahead, very steep, yet with resting places. At the top stands God's throne. The way is clear.

In the spiritual life, a staircase lies ahead, very steep, yet with resting places. At the top stands God's throne. The way is clear.

In the spiritual life, all who cease climbing, and choose to stay where they are, still have to complete the climb after death, if they would enter Heaven.

In the spiritual life, all who cease climbing, and choose to stay where they are, still have to complete the climb after death, if they would enter Heaven.

Life in Christ is like a constantly moving process of loving guidance from the Three Divine Persons. This draws willing souls up high, to greater sanctity.

It was because so few Catholics knew much about the Faith, or about the stages of the spiritual life, that God taught me so much about our Christ, Who is the living image of Our Father in Heaven and on fire with the same Divine Love.

Christ's love for each of us is never-ending and tender. Things go wrong in the spiritual life when people begin to hide themselves from Christ by sin or despondency.

Even if we try to serve God with wholehearted love, it can seem as if our spiritual life is lived in a 'tunnel' of interior darkness, until the moment of 'breakthrough' into the light, brought about by God.

The seed of our baptism is meant to grow into a mighty plant and take us to the heights of the spiritual life.