The Practice of Perfection and Christian VirtuesPart Two On temptations fhat Temptations Cannot Fail to Come in This Life How Some Are Tempted at the Beginning of Their Entry into Religion, or into the Church, Others Afterwards Why the Lord Wishes Us to Have Temptations, and of the Utility and Profit That Ensue Upon Them Of Other Benefits and Advantages That Temptations Bring with Them That Temptations Avail Us Greatly to Know and Humble Ourselves, and Have More Recourse to God That in Temptations the Just Are Further Proved and Purified, and Take Root Better in Virtue That Temptations Make a Man Diligent and Fervent That the Saints and Servants of God Not Only Do Not Grow Sorrowful over Their Temptations, but Rather Rejoice for the Profit They Make Thereby That in Temptations One Learns Lessons Not for Oneself Only, but for Others Here Begins the Enumeration of Remedies against Temptations, and First on the Part of the Mind, the Strength and Cheerfulness Which We Should Keep in Dealing with Them How Little It Is That the Devil Can Do against Us That We Should Draw Great Courage and Confidence for Struggling with Temptations from the Consideration That God Is Looking at Us Of Two Excellent Reasons for Fighting with Great Courage and Confidence under Temptation That God Permits No One to Be Tempted beyond His Strength, and That We Must Not Be Discouraged ~ at the Temptation Growing or Continuing That to Distrust Ourselves, and Place Our Whole Confidence in God Is a Great Means to Overcome Temptations, and Why God So Readily Comes to the Help of Those Who Trust in Him Of Prayer as a Remedy: Some Ejaculatory Prayers Suitable for Time of Temptation Of Two Other Remedies against Temptations Of Two Other Chief Remedies, Which Are to Resist Temptation in Its Beginnings, and Never to Be Idle Of Temptations Which Come under the Appearance of Good, and that the Great Remedy for All Such ; Temptations Is to Recognize and Hold Them for What They Are How We Should Behave in Temptations of Evil and Impure Thoughts, and of Remedies against Them That in Different Temptations We Should Behave Differently as to Our Manner of Resisting Them Some Important Pieces of Advice for the Time of Temptation
