Thomas a Kempis: what we shall be asked

Saturday, February 20, 2016
    Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906
Meditation:
    And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
    —Revelation 16:7 (KJV)
Quotation:
    At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
    ... Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), Of the Imitation of Christ [1418], Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1877, I.iii.5, p.35 (see the book)
    See also Rev. 16:7; Matt. 7:24; 12:50; Luke 6:46-48; 11:28; 12:47-48; John 13:17; Rom. 2:13; Col. 3:17; Jas. 1:22; 4:17; 1 John 2:3
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You rebuke my idleness. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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