Thomas a Kempis: remain virtuous?

Monday, August 16, 2010
Meditation:
    The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
    Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
    —Genesis 3:12-13 (NIV)
Quotation:
    You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
    ... Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), Of the Imitation of Christ [1418], Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1877, p. 227 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I must rely on Your promise to forgive sin. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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