Category: IMITATION OF CHRIST

  • THE QUEST OF DIVINE HELP AND CONFIDENCE IN REGAINING GRACE

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST MY CHILD, I am the Lord Who gives strength in the day of trouble. Come to Me when all is not well with you. Your tardiness in turning to prayer is the greatest obstacle to heavenly consolation, for before you pray earnestly to Me you first seek many…

  • HOW WE MUST CALL UPON AND BLESS THE LORD WHEN TROUBLE PRESSES

    Imitation of Christ THE DISCIPLE BLESSED be Your name forever, O Lord, Who have willed that this temptation and trouble come upon me. I cannot escape it, yet I must fly to You that You may help me and turn it to my good. Now I am troubled, Lord, and my heart is not at…

  • STRENGTH AGAINST SLANDER

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST MY CHILD, do not take it to heart if some people think badly of you and say unpleasant things about you. You ought to think worse things of yourself and to believe that no one is weaker than yourself. Moreover, if you walk in the spirit you will…

  • SELF-LOVE IS THE GREATEST HINDRANCE TO THE HIGHEST GOOD

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST MY CHILD, you should give all for all, and in no way belong to yourself. You must know that self-love is more harmful to you than anything else in the world. In proportion to the love and affection you have for a thing, it will cling to you…

  • THE EXCELLENCE OF A FREE MIND, GAINED THROUGH PRAYER RATHER THAN BY STUDY

    Imitation of Christ THE DISCIPLE IT IS the mark of a perfect man, Lord, never to let his mind relax in attention to heavenly things, and to pass through many cares as though he had none; not as an indolent man does, but having by the certain prerogative of a free mind no disorderly affection…

  • THE BASIS OF FIRM PEACE OF HEART AND TRUE PROGRESS

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST MY CHILD, I have said: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you.” All men desire peace but all do not care for the things that go to make true peace. My peace is with…

  • AVOIDING CURIOUS INQUIRIES ABOUT THE LIVES OF OTHERS

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST MY CHILD, do not be curious. Do not trouble yourself with idle cares. What matters this or that to you? Follow Me. What is it to you if a man is such and such, if another does or says this or that? You will not have to answer…

  • FOUR THINGS WHICH BRING GREAT PEACE

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST MY CHILD, I will teach you now the way of peace and true liberty.Seek, child, to do the will of others rather than your own.Always choose to have less rather than more.Look always for the last place and seek to be beneath all others.Always wish and pray that…

  • REMEMBER THE INNUMERABLE GIFTS OF GOD

    Imitation of Christ THE DISCIPLE OPEN my heart, O Lord, to Your law and teach me to walk in the way of Your commandments. Let me understand Your will. Let me remember Your blessings—all of them and each single one of them—with great reverence and care so that henceforth I may return worthy thanks for…

  • ABOVE ALL GOODS AND ALL GIFTS WE MUST REST IN GOD

    Imitation of Christ THE DISCIPLE ABOVE all things and in all things, O my soul, rest always in God, for He is the everlasting rest of the saints. Grant, most sweet and loving Jesus, that I may seek my repose in You above every creature; above all health and beauty; above every honor and glory;…