THAT OUR PEACE IS NOT TO BE PLACED IN MEN “”My Son, if you set your peace on any person because you have high opinion of him, and are familiar with him, you shall be unstable and entangled. But if you betake yourself to the ever-living and abiding Truth, the desertion or death of a [...]
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the imitation of Christ, the 3rd book: chapter xxvi (the exaltation of a free spirit which humble prayer more deserves than does frequent reading)
OF THE EXALTATION OF A FREE SPIRIT WHICH HUMBLE PRAYER MORE DESERVES THAN DOES FREQUENT READING “Lord, this is the work of a perfect man, never to slacken his mind from attention to heavenly things, and among many cares, to pass along as it were without care, not after the manner of one indifferent, but [...]