![]() ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Each chapter (such as "How to Combine Due Care for a Good Reputation with Humility") is frank, uncannily modern, and precise. But it is most distinguished by its discussion of how to live a holy life in the secular world. The book includes long sections about prayer, temptation, and how to maintain and renew devotion to God. The book collects passages from many of those letters, organized as one message addressed to the allegorical character Philothea (which means "lover of God"). ![]() He was a popular minister and a prolific letter writer whose correspondence was cherished for its clear and direct instruction in the ways of piety. Francis served the church at a dangerous time in a dangerous place: during the Reformation, in Calvinist areas of France, when celebrating mass was punishable by death. This was the central insight of Saint Francis de Sales, a 16th-century priest whose Introduction to the Devout Life has not gone out of print in almost four centuries. ![]() ![]() Devout life does not require withdrawal from the world. ![]()
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