TREATISE ON THE LOVE OF GOD

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Book Eleven: The Absolute Authority Which Sacred Love Has Over All The Virtues, Actions And Perfections Of The Soul

Chapter 1: All The Virtues Are Pleasing To God

Chapter 2: Sacred Love Makes The Virtues Very Much More Pleasing To God Than They Are Of Their Own Nature

Chapter 3: Sacred Love Raises Some Virtues To A Higher Excellence Than Others

Chapter 4: Sacred Love Sanctifies The Virtues Still More Perfectly When They Are Practised By Its Order And Request

Chapter 5: Sacred Love Shares Its Excellence With The Other Virtues Perfecting Their Particular Excellence

Chapter 6: The High Value Which Sacred Love Gives To The Actions Issuing From Itself And To Those Which Proceed From The Other Virtues

Chapter 7: Perfect Virtues Are Never Present Singly But Always Along With The Others

Chapter 8: Charity Includes All The Virtues

Chapter 9: The Virtues Draw Their Perfection From Sacred Love

Chapter 10: A Digression On The Imperfection Of The Virtues Of The Unbelievers

Chapter 11: Human Actions Are Without Value When Done Without Love Of God

Chapter 12: Sacred Love Returning Into The Soul Brings Back To Life All The Works Which Sin Had Destroyed

Chapter 13: We Should Reduce The Entire Practice Of Virtues And Of Our Actions To Holy Love

Chapter 14: The Practice Of What Has Been Said In The Preceding Chapter

Chapter 15: Charity Contains In Itself The Gifts Of The Holy Spirit

Chapter 16: The Loving Fear Of Spouses: A Continuation Of The Same Subject

Chapter 17: Servile Fear Remains Along With Divine Love

Chapter 18: Love Makes Use Of Natural, Servile And Mercenary Fear

Chapter 19: Sacred Love Contains The Twelve Fruits Of The Holy Spirit With The Eight Beatitudes Of The Gospel

Chapter 20: Divine Love Makes Use Of All The Passions And Affections Of The Soul And Brings Them Under Its Obedience

Chapter 21: Sadness Is Almost Always Useless And Even Contrary To The Service Of Holy Love