Thomas À Kempis: Notes of a Visit to the Scenes in which His Life was Spent, with Some Account of the Examination of His Relics |
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Page 12 - Galahad's virgin heart makes him tenfold " strong against his foes : " My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure"
Page 42 - that he realized the words which our Divine Lord addressed to His disciples when He bade them follow Him in the lowly path which leads to the eternal kingdom. " Take up My yoke upon "you, and learn of Me, because I am meek, and humble
Page 194 - I have received the cross, I have received it from " thy hand ; I will bear it ; and bear it unto death, as " thou hast laid it upon me. " Verily, the life of a good monk is a cross, but it " leads him to paradise.
Page 9 - in descanting on the merits of the Cross, becomes " truly poetical : ' In the Cross is salvation ; in the " ' Cross is life ; in the Cross is protection against our ' ' enemies ; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly
Page 16 - ' and thorough good. . . . Nothing is sweeter than " ' Love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing " ' wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better " ' in heaven and earth ; because Love is born of God, "
Page 45 - they shall separate you, and shall reproach you, and cast " out your name as evil, for the Son of Mans sake.
Page xi - I suppose that is the reason why the small, old" fashioned book, for which you need only pay sixpence " at a bookstall, works miracles to this day, turning bitter " waters into sweetness ; while expensive sermons and "treatises newly issued
Page 208 - Paulanus codex,—and so on. It may be said of it, that what is new is not true, and what is true is not new. Probably the best comment I can make upon Wolfsgruber's Life and Work of John
Page 13 - ' about dark and hidden things, for ignorance of which " ' we shall not be reproved at the day of judgment ? It " ' is a great folly to neglect the things that are profitable " 'and necessary, and to choose to dwell
Page 116 - of the firmament ; and they that instruct many " to justice, as stars for all eternity." \ We can picture à Kempis in our minds, as his portrait and the descriptions help us. A man of good figure, scarcely under middle