The whole of creation confirms this view. In this book the author has proved conclusively to anyone of upright mind that there is an all-wise and designing Providence, who has created all things with an end in view, and this especially as regards human beings. In these days of positive unbelief, agnosticism, and general indifference concerning the supernatural, it is to be hoped that this English translation of the Reverend Father Garrigou-Lagrange's La Providence et la confiance en Dieu will serve a useful purpose. It has been exemplified in the lives of the best of her children. Nowhere will they find it but in the Gospel entrusted by Jesus Christ to His Church, which has preserved, taught, and expounded it. Souls are perishing in the ever-shifting sands of the relative it is the absolute they need. Their chief aim will be to insist on the absolute and supremely life-giving character of the truth revealed by our Lord Jesus Christ and infallibly proposed to us by the Church. May these pages instill in the minds of those who read them a better understanding of God's infinite majesty and the absolute value of the one thing necessary, our last end and sanctification.

From this point of view we shall treat here: (1) of the existence of God and of His providence (2) of those perfections of God which His providence presupposes (3) of providence itself according to the Old and New Testaments (4) of a trusting self-abandonment to God's providence (5) of providence in its relation to justice and mercy. Our activity and our progress toward eternity must be directed from the higher plane of this contemplation.

The primary object of contemplation is, in fact, God Himself and His infinite perfections, especially His goodness, His wisdom, and His providence. Having treated elsewhere of God and of providence from a purely speculative point of view, we here resume the consideration of these great questions in their relation to the spiritual life. Part III : Providence According To Revelation Part II :The Perfections Of God Which His Providence Presupposes Part I : The Existence Of God And Of Providence

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