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- The good religious should excel in all virtues, so that he may be interiorly what he appears to be exteriorly.
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
Chapter 21 The contrite heart
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
Chapter 2 Humble self-opinion
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
You must be willing to make yourself nothing in the world's eyes in order to be everything in God's.
Mark Fairley • Stay Free: Why Society Can't Survive Without God
Always be prepared; live so that death may never find you unprepared (see Mt 24:44).
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
As Hauerwas puts it, “Aquinas was right that only God is pure act. Only in God are existence and essence one. Accordingly, our language about God is necessarily analogical, which means that theology has the task of helping the church not say more about God than needs to be said.” Hannah’s Child, 52.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Then constant patience will be of more use than all the power of the world (see Prov 16:32).
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
In the end he obtains the fruit of his prayer and testifies to the fact that he was heard, by saying, “The Lord heard me and has mercy on me: the Lord is my helper” (Ps 30:10).