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On Cleaving to God

Saint Albert the Great (1193-1280)

Albertus Magnus

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Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction

Chapter 1 - On the highest and supreme perfection of man, in so far as it is possible in this life

Chapter 2 - How one can cling to and seek Christ alone, disdaining everything else

Chapter 3 - What the perfection of man consist of in this life

Chapter 4 - How man's activity should be purely in the intellect and not in the senses

Chapter 5 - On purity of heart which is to be sought above all things

Chapter 6 - That the devout man should cleave to God with naked understanding and wi

Chapter 7 - How the heart should be gathered within itself

Chapter 8 - How a religious man should commit himself to God in all circumstances

Chapter 9 - How much the contemplation of God is to be preferred to all other exercises

Chapter 10 - That one should not be concerned about feeling tangible devotion so much as about cleaving to God with one's will

Chapter 11 - How one should resist temptations and bear trials

Chapter 12 - How powerful the love of God is

Chapter 13 - The nature and value of prayer, and how the heart should be recollectedwithin itself

Chapter 14 - That we should seek the verdict of our conscience in every decision

Chapter 15 - How contempt of himself can be produced in a man, and how useful it is

Chapter 16 - How God's Providence includes everything

Index of Scripture References

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