Christian Self-Mastery
Subtitle: How to Govern Your Thoughts, Discipline Your Will, and Achieve Balance in Your Spiritual Life
Edition: Abridged edition
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781928832218
Subjects: Spiritual life; Christianity - Christian Life - General; Religion - Christian Life; Religion; Christian Life - General; Discipline; Self-help; Christian life; Catholic Church; Catholic authors
First sentence: There are two spheres of knowledge in which everyone who is endeavoring after any growth in the spiritual life must be making some advance: the knowledge of God and the knowledge of self.
Description: This is the book you need for those times in your life when even your most strenuous efforts to follow Christ end in frustration. Christian Self-Mastery explains why following Him can be so difficult {u2014} and how you can start now to make progress even in the most vexing areas of your life. Author Fr. Basil W. Maturin insists that no matter how hard you're trying now, you can have a better relationship with God and greater self-mastery if you follow his simple steps to getting your passions in check and improving your knowledge of your own motives, desires, and fears. Fr. Maturin emphasizes the crucial role that self-discipline plays in your spiritual life and gives you solid ways you can distinguish it from counterfeits and avoid common mistakes people make when they try to change their habits and live for God. - Publisher.