THAT THE DESIRES OF THE HEART ARE TO BE EXAMINED AND GOVERNED “” My Son, you have still many things to learn, which you have not well learned yet.” What are they Lord? “To place your desire altogether in subjection to My good pleasure, and not to be a lover of yourself, but an earnest [...]
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the imitation of Christ, the 1st book: chapter xix (the exercises of a religious man)
OF THE EXERCISES OF A RELIGIOUS MAN “The life of a Christian ought to be adorned with all virtues, that he may be inwardly what he outwardly appears unto men. And verily it should be yet better within than without, for God is a discerner of our heart, Whom we must reverence with all our [...]