The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints : Volume I (Illustrated)

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, General Christianity, Church, Christian Life
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Author: Alban Butler ISBN: 1230000292647
Publisher: SAVA Publication: January 21, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Alban Butler
ISBN: 1230000292647
Publisher: SAVA
Publication: January 21, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

The lives of the saints furnish the Christian with a daily spiritual entertainment,  which is not less agreeable than affecting and instructive. For in sacred biography the advantages of devotion and piety are joined with the most attractive charms of history. The method of forming men to virtue by example, is, of all others, the shortest, the most easy, and the best adapted to all circumstances and dispositions. Pride recoils at precepts, but example instructs without usurping the authoritative air of a master; for, by example, a man seems to advise and teach himself. It does its work unperceived, and therefore with less opposition from the passions, which take not the alarm. Its influence is communicated with pleasure. 

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The lives of the saints furnish the Christian with a daily spiritual entertainment,  which is not less agreeable than affecting and instructive. For in sacred biography the advantages of devotion and piety are joined with the most attractive charms of history. The method of forming men to virtue by example, is, of all others, the shortest, the most easy, and the best adapted to all circumstances and dispositions. Pride recoils at precepts, but example instructs without usurping the authoritative air of a master; for, by example, a man seems to advise and teach himself. It does its work unperceived, and therefore with less opposition from the passions, which take not the alarm. Its influence is communicated with pleasure. 

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