Manual for Interior Souls, by Father Jean Nicolas Grou

The English Editor to the Reader
Short Account of the Abbé Grou
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On True and Solid Devotion
The Ideal of True Virtue
On the Means of Attaining True and Solid Virtue
On the New Life in Jesus Christ
On the Violence We Must Use Towards Ourselves
On The Way of The Cross
On the True Liberty of the Children of God
On the Strength We Have of Ourselves, and of Our Strength in God
On the Conduct of God Towards the Soul
On the Fear of God
On Holiness
On Commerce as a Figure of the Spiritual Life
How God is All and the Creature is Nothing
On What God Asks of Us, and What We Must Ask of God
On the Employment of Time
On the Blindness of Man
On the Weakness and Corruption of the Human Heart
On the Three Words That Were Said to Saint Arsenius: Fly - Keep Silence - Rest
On Faithfulness in Little Things
On the Profit We Ought to Derive from Our Faults
On the Director
On the Spirit of Faith
On the Love of Our Neighbour
On the World
On the Dignity of Man
On the Human Heart
On Temptations
On What Our Conduct Should Be with Regard to Temptations
On the Human "I"
On the Annihilation of Self
On Generosity
On Obedience
On Humility
On the Providence of God for His Children
On the Price of a Soul
On Purity of Intention
Martha and Mary
On These Words of Psalm LXXII: I am as a beast before Thee: nevertheless I am always with Thee.
On the Thought of Death
On the Thought of Eternity
God Alone
On Continual Prayer
On Trust in God
On the Love of God
On Rest in God
On the Life of the Soul
On the Peace of the Soul
On Fundamental Truths of the Interior Life
On the Divine Light
On Spiritual Childhood
On The Jealousy of God
On Pure Love
On the Interior of Mary
The Crib of Bethlehem
On Jesus Christ
On The Interior of Jesus Christ
On the Effects of Holy Communion
On the Relationship Between the Holy Eucharist and the Cross
On the Crucifix
On Reflections During Prayer
On Simplicity
On the Words of Psalm VIII
On Entire Abandonment
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Appendix
A Short and Simple Manner of Making Our Prayer in the Spirit of Faith, and in the Simple Presence of God
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The text of these files is taken from the book Manual for Interior Souls by Father Jean Nicolas Grou, 2nd edition, translator unknown, and published in London, England in 1890.
It has the Imprimatur of Bishop John Baptist Butt, Diocese of Southwark, England.
The cover image is the painting La Solitude by Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny, 1850.