XVI. THE FIRST CONFERENCE OF ABBOT JOSEPH ON FRIENDSHIP
Index
CHAPTER I: What Abbot Joseph asked us in the first instance.
CHAPTER II: Discourse of the same elder on the untrustworthy sort of friendship.
CHAPTER III: How friendship is indissoluble.
CHAPTER IV: A question whether anything that is really useful should be performed even against a brother's wish.
CHAPTER V: The answer, how a lasting friendship can only exist among those who are perfect.
CHAPTER VI: By what means union can be preserved unbroken.
CHAPTER VII: How nothing should be put before love, or after anger.
CHAPTER VIII: On what grounds a dispute can arise among spiritual persons.
CHAPTER IX: How to get rid even of spiritual grounds of discord.
CHAPTER X: On the best tests of truth.
CHAPTER XI: How it is impossible for one who trusts to his own judgment to escape being deceived by the devil's illusions.
CHAPTER XII: Why inferiors should not be despised in Conference.
CHAPTER XIII: How love does not only belong to God but is God.
CHAPTER XIV: On the different grades of love.
CHAPTER XV: Of those who only increase their own or their brother's grievances by hiding them.
CHAPTER XVI: How it is that, if our brother has any grudge against us, the gifts of our prayers are rejected by the Lord.
CHAPTER XVII: Of those who hold that patience should be shown to worldly people rather than to the brethren.
CHAPTER XVIII: Of those who pretend to patience but excite their brethren to anger by their silence.
CHAPTER XIX: Of those who fast out of rage.
CHAPTER XX: Of the feigned patience of some who offer the other cheek to be smitten.
CHAPTER XXI: A question how if we obey the commands of Christ we can fail of evangelical perfection.
CHAPTER XXII: The answer that Christ looks not only at the action but also at the will.
CHAPTER XXIII: How he is the strong and vigorous man, who yields to the will of another.
CHAPTER XXIV: How the weak are harmful and cannot bear wrongs.
CHAPTER XXV: A question how he can be strong who does not always support the weak.
CHAPTER XXVI: The answer that the weak does not always allow himself to be borne.
CHAPTER XXVII: How anger should be repressed.
CHAPTER XXVIII: How friendships entered upon by conspiracy cannot be lasting ones.