Must abstain from sin for the Love of God
4. The instructor must frequently exhort the people to the love of God; he who does not love God, and only abstains from sin through fear of hell, is in great danger of relapsing into sin as soon as the lively sensation of fear ceases; but he who has once come to love Jesus Christ, will afterwards find it hard to fall into mortal sin. For this purpose the meditation on the Passion of Jesus Christ is most profitable. St. Bonaventure says that the wounds of Jesus Christ are wounds which would soften hearts of stone and inflame minds of ice. Hence it is necessary to make a short mental prayer every day, and to make frequent acts of love to Jesus Christ, and to ask frequently of God the gift of his love.
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