THE DESIRE AFTER ETERNAL LIFE, AND HOW GREAT BLESSINGS ARE PROMISED TO THOSE WHO STRIVE ““My Son, when you feel the desire of eternal happiness to be poured into you from above, and longest to depart from the tabernacle of this body, that you may contemplate My glory without shadow of turning, enlarge your heart, [...]
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the imitation of Christ, the 3rd book: chapter xix (bearing injuries and who shall be approved as truly patient)
OF BEARING INJURIES; AND WHO SHALL BE APPROVED AS TRULY PATIENT “” What say you My Son. Cease to complain; consider My suffering and that of My saints. You have not yet resisted unto blood, (Hebrews 12:4). It is little which you suffer in comparison with those who have suffered so many things, have been [...]
