How to Live a Holy Life
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN13:
9781976244292
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Consequently, our reading devotional literature is a great aid to our being devotional. Too few, I fear, realize how important to our spiritual advancement is the cultivation of a taste for devotional reading. As a rule, those who have a taste for spiritual books and gratify that taste prosper in the Lord, while those who have no relish for such books labor at a great disadvantage. Some one has said that "he who begins a devout life without a taste for spiritual reading may consider the ordinary difficulties multiplied in his case by ten." The most spiritual men of all ages have had a strong love for reading spiritual books. If, however, my reader happens not to have such a taste or such a love, he should not be discouraged, for it can be created and increased through perseverance in reading devotional literature. Just as a person who does not relish a certain food may learn to like it if he will persist in eating it, so a person who does not have a taste for devotional books may come to enjoy them if he will diligently and prayerfully peruse them. Spiritual reading invigorates the intellect, warms the affections, and begets in us a desire for more of God's fulness and for a more heavenly life. It is especially helpful to prayer. When the mind is dull and the spirits low and we have no inspiration for prayer, the reading of a spiritual poem will often so stimulate the mind, raise the spirits, and animate the soul, as to make it easy for us to pray.
- | Author: Charles Ebert Orr
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Oct 09, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 128 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1976244293
- | ISBN-13: 9781976244292
- Author:
- Charles Ebert Orr
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Oct 09, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 128 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1976244293
- ISBN-13:
- 9781976244292