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Learn to give little notice to exterior things. Instead prepare within your heart a permanent place for Jesus. This will identify you as a true Christian and let you adore God in a way worthy of his infinite majesty. You will even find yourself absorbed in God. At the same time it will allow a foretaste of the happiness you will possess in heaven.
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
O Lord, teach me to do your will, to try to be worthy, to stand humbly in your presence for you are my wisdom. You truly knew me even before the world was made and before I was born into it.
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
Chapter 2 Within us truth speaks without words
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
Under the general plan of nonresistance one may take the position of imitation.
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
my eyes fell upon Mark 10:14–15. Here Jesus says, “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child he shall not enter therein.”
Dannion Brinkley • Secrets of the Light: Lessons from Heaven
Above all guard against judging others. By attending to ourselves, we will avoid making rash judgments against our neighbor.
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
Do not be ashamed to serve others for the love of Jesus Christ, or to appear poor in this world (see 2 Cor 4:5).
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
And then also, as in the days of my childhood, I cried out: "My God, I choose everything, I will not be a Saint by halves, I am not afraid of suffering for Thee, I only fear one thing, and that is to do my own will. Accept the offering of my will, for I choose all that Thou willest."
de Lisieux Thérèse • The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse
the Imitation of Christ.