Nature wants to know secrets and is avid for news, wants to appear in public and to try out new things. She likes to be noticed and to do sensational things to win approval.
Grace cares nothing for the novel or curious, for she knows that all this springs fro our old corruption, since there is nothing new or lasting upon earth.
Grace teaches us to control our senses, to shun all vain pleasure and outward show, and humbly to hide anything that might win men's admiration. In all knowledge and in all actions, grace seeks not only spiritual profit, but, above all, the praise and honor of God, that He may be blessed in His gifts, which He freely bestows through His love.
From "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas A. Kempis
Pray for Jon and Family
15 years ago
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