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- This is the highest and most profitable lesson: truly to know and think little of yourself.
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
If you wish to receive profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and do not seek to be known as learned.
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
God does not make himself heard in the midst of worldly preoccupations, but speaks to the soul in silence and solitude. If we wish to have God speak to us, we must learn to put aside our attachments and retire into the solitude of the heart in order to hear the voice of God.
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
- Whatever is impossible to amend in one’s self or in others, must be borne with patience until God decides otherwise.
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
A conventionally minded dervish, from an austerely pious school, was walking one day along a river bank. He was absorbed in concentration on moralistic and scholastic problems, for this was the form which Sufi teaching had taken in the community to which he belonged. He equated emotional religion with the search for ulti... See more
Idries Shah • A Unique Form of Literature
But if you value anything temporal, you will lose a great deal. Allow nothing to seem noteworthy, important, pleasant, or agreeable to you, except God and the things of God. Any consolation that comes to you from creatures is vanity. A soul that loves God has no regard for anything less than God. Only God, eternal and immense, fills all things, and
... See moreThomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
- Then will it be clear that those who were fools for Christ, and because of this were despised, were truly the wise of this world (see 1 Cor 4:10).
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
the Imitation of Christ.