A Right View of Yourself: The Devilish Perils & Divine Possibilities of Self-Knowledge - Hardcover

by Frederick William Faber (Author)

One of the greatest contradictions in the Spiritual Life is that it is very important you should know a great deal about yourself, and at the same time, that you should think very little about yourself.
In A Right View of Yourself, the esteemed Rev. Fr. Frederick Faber will lead you through a journey of self-knowledge. With gentleness, candor and wisdom, he digs deeply into the normal state of a soul, the effects of fatigue, the necessity for spiritual rest, struggles with temptation and scruples and how to view rightly our faults. He provides instruction on how to avoid devilish perils that you may encounter along the way: heightened sensitivity, emotionalism, and worst of all sentimentality.
Throughout his work, he remains consistently optimistic about the divine possibilities self-knowledge can reveal. He prepares you to begin this journey governed by faith, humility and confidence in God's mercy and love.
No knowledge in the world can be more interesting than to know how you stand with God and A Right View of Yourself will help you see yourself as He does.

Author Biography

Father Frederick William Faber was born in Yorkshire, England in 1814. He was converted from the Anglican ministry to Catholicism in 1845. Ordained a priest in 1847, he joined the Oratorians
in 1848 and worked with John Henry Cardinal Newman. Fr. Faber died in London in 1863.

In addition to composing "Faith of Our Fathers", and numerous other fine hymns, Fr. Faber authored nine books, including Spiritual Conferences, All for Jesus, Growth in Holiness, The Blessed Sacrament, The Foot of the Cross, The Precious Blood, Bethlehem and The Creator and the Creature.

A Right View of Yourself is excerpted from Growth In Holiness, long considered one of Faber's greatest works. It has been edited and arranged to introduce the author's keen insight and spiritual wisdom to modern readers.