A prayer to God in our weakness and temptations
1 min • Digitized on September 10, 2022
From Imitation of Christ, in file "Imitation of Christ", page 187
By Thomas a Kempis
Behold, then, O Lord, my abjection and frailty every way known to thee.
Have pity on me, and draw me out of the mire, that I stick not fast therein, that I may not be utterly cast down for ever.
This it is which often drives me back, and confounds me in thy sight, to find that I am so subject to fall, and have so little strength to resist my passions.
And although I do not altogether consent, yet their assaults are troublesome and grievous to me; and it is exceedingly irksome to live thus always in a conflict.
From hence my infirmity is made known to me; because wicked thoughts do always much more easily rush in upon me, than they can be cast out again.