Exhortation to humbly make peace with God
1 min • Digitized on September 11, 2022
From Imitation of Christ, in file "Imitation of Christ", page 71
By Thomas a Kempis
4. There is no vice which will not have its proper torments.
There the proud will be filled with all confusion; and the covetous be straitened with most miserable want.
There one hour of suffering will be more sharp, than a hundred years here spent in the most rigid penance.
There is no rest, no comfort for the damned: but here there is sometimes intermission of labour, and we receive comfort from our friends.
Be careful at present, and sorrowful for thy sins: that in the day of judgment thou mayest be secure with the blessed.
For then the just shall stand with great constancy against those that afflicted and oppressed them, Wisd. v.
Then will he stand to judge: who now humbly submits himself to the judgment of men.
Then the poor and humble will have great confidence: and the proud will fear on every side.