HOW TO PROFIT FROM YOUR FAULTS

by Joseph Tissot

Book of the Month, January 2005

Translated from French and written by Joseph Tissot, this easy to read book is packed with spiritual dynamite.  The book gives practical guidance for turning one's imperfections to one's advantage.  Drawing on the wisdom of St. Francis de Sales and other great saints, as well as a rich understanding and broad experience of human nature, Tissot explains in practical terms:

* the proper balance between patience with one's faults and desire to improve.

* why self knowledge is vital for one's spiritual and psychological well-being.

* sorrow:  why it should not always be rejected although it can have evil effects on the human spirit

* the great fruit that comes from the realization of one's own shortcomings.

* a hidden cause that makes well-intentioned people commit faults despite themselves.

* how one should react to slowness of progress against faults.

* true and false humility: how to distinguish them.

* why it is so important to avoid discouragement, and to do nothing in anger or when agitated.

* the greatest evil that can befall a human being and how to overcome it.

* why a simple desire for perfection is not enough to attain it and what else one must do.

* three great evils that can become sources of great good.

* humility and the real meaning of this much misunderstood virtue.

* the risks and pitfalls involved in occupying a position of authority and how to overcome them.

* the revolution in one's view of the world that can come from an awareness of one's own imperfections.

* how to deal with the negative consequences of one's faults.

Ultimately, Tissot explains, individual faults can be the occasion either of self-destruction or salvation. In this book, he shows how to use them for good.

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