The Practice of Perfection and Christian VirtuesPart One On rectitude and purity of intention in our actions That in Our Actions We Ought to Shun the Vice of Vainglory In What the Malice of Vainglory Consists Of the Loss That Vainglory Entails That the Temptation to Vainglory Assails Not Only Beginners, but Also Those Who Are Well-Advanced in Virtue Of the Special Need That There Is to Beware of the Vice of Vainglory in Those Who Have the Office of Helping Their Neighbor — Of Sundry Remedies Against Vainglory Of the End and Good Intention That We Ought to Have in Our Actions In Which It Is Explained How We May Do Our Actions with Great Rectitude and Purity of Intention That the Reason Why We Find Ourselves Sometimes Distracted and Thrown Back in Our Spirituality by Of the Great Benefit and Gain to Be Found in Doing One’s Actions in the Manner Aforesaid A Further Declaration of the Rectitude and Purity of Intention Which We Ought to Have in Our Actions Of Some Signs Whereby It Will be Known When One Goes After Things Purely for God, and When One Goes After Them for Oneself How We Ought to Go on Growing and Mounting in Rectitude and Purity of Intention Of Three Degrees of Perfection Whereby We May Ascend to Great Purity of Intention and Great Love of God
