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Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations. - [Adversity] Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections. - [Self-reliance] Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys him. - [Simplicity] Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience. - [Patience] So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit. - [Sloth] That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading. - [Knowledge] There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God. - [God] Those who love with purity consider not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. - [Sincerity] Thou wilt enjoy tranquillity if thy heart condemn thee not. - [Tranquility] Thy peace shall be in much patience. - [Peace] Truly at the day of judgment we shall not be examined as to what we have read, but as to what we have done; not as to how well we have spoken, but as to how religiously we have lived. - [Judgment Day] We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others. - [Peace] Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ. - [Christ] Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living. - [Christianity] Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] - bk. I, 21 [Habit] Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return. [Lat., Memento semper finis, et quia perditum non redit tempus.] - bk. I, ch. XXV, 11 [Time] Everywhere I have sought rest and found it not except sitting apart in a nook with a little book. [Lat., In omnibus requiem quaesivi Et non inveni Nisi seorsim sedans In angulo cum libello.] - De Imitatione Christi, written in an autographed copy according to Cornelius A. Lapide [Books] Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.] - De Imitatione Christi (bk. II, 2), adapted from "A cruce salus" [Redemption] Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?] - De Imitatione Christi (II, 10, 1) [Labor] For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are. - Imitation of Christ, (Dibdin's translation) [Circumstance] Know all and you will pardon all. - Imitation of Christ [Forgiveness : Proverbs] He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors. - Imitation of Christ (bk. I, ch. III) [Character] He is truly great who hath a great charity. - Imitation of Christ (bk. I, ch. III), (Dibdin's translation) [Charity] O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.] - Imitation of Christ (bk. I, ch. III, 6) [Glory] Man proposes, but God disposes. [Lat., Nam homo proponit, sed Deus disponit.] - Imitation of Christ (bk. I, ch. XIX), (Thomas Dibdin's translation) [God] Displaying page 2 of 3 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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