the imitation of Christ, the 2nd book: chapter v (self-esteem)

OF SELF-ESTEEM “We cannot place too little confidence in ourselves because grace and understanding are often lacking to us. Little light is there within us, and what we have we quickly lose by negligence. Oftentimes we perceive not how great is our inward blindness; we often do ill and excuse it worse. Sometimes we are [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxi (exit from the old to the new)

“You here meet a law in God's great nature that is hard to understand. If you condemn yourself, you stand condemned before God. Therefore, we urge upon you the necessity of settling the matter, according to the directions of Christ: “If therefore thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy [...]