the imitation of Christ, the 3rd book: chapter xlvi (having confidence on God when evil words are cast at us)

OF HAVING CONFIDENCE IN GOD WHEN EVIL WORDS ARE CAST AT US “” My Son, stand fast and believe in Me. For what are words but words! They fly through the air, but they bruise no stone. If you are guilty, think how you would gladly amend yourself; if you know nothing against yourself, consider [...]

the imitation of Christ, the 3rd book: chapter xlv (that we must not believe everyone; and that we are prone to fall in our words)

THAT WE MUST NOT BELIEVE EVERYONE; AND THAT WE ARE PRONE TO FALL IN OUR WORDS “Lord, be you my help in trouble, for vain is the help of man, (Psalm 60:11). How often have I failed to find faithfulness, where I thought I possessed it. How many times I have found it where I [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

“Human beings in this world can never be free through fighting. They can never be free through argument. They can never be free through using human intellectual consciousness filled with human concepts. There's only one thing that is the Eternal Freedom of Life, and that is the Purifying Love that is All-Illumination. And if It [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

“When you have individual problems to handle, that are discordant or limiting, when you call forth My Ascended Jesus Christ Power of Indestructible Purity, and whatever is necessary of the Sacred Fire to annihilate what is wrong, and replace it by Ascended Master Eternal Victory of what is right, you cannot fail. You cannot have [...]

the imitation of Christ, the 3rd book: chapter xliv (not troubling ourselves about outward things)

OF NOT TROUBLING OURSELVES ABOUT OUTWARD THINGS “” My Son, in many things, it behooves you to be ignorant, and to esteem yourself as one dead upon the earth, and as one to whom the whole world is crucified. Many things also you must pass by with deaf ear, and must rather think upon those [...]

the imitation of Christ, the 3rd book: chapter xliii (against vain and worldly knowledge)

AGAINST VAIN AND WORLDLY KNOWLEDGE “” My Son, let not the fair and subtle sayings of men move you. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power, (1 Corinthians 4:20). Give ear to My words, for they kindle the heart and enlighten the mind, they bring contrition, and they supply manifold [...]