Portrait of Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis on Surrender & Obedience

I beseech you therefore, brethren, … that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice.
— Romans 12:1

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The Imitation of Christ 4

  1. No man commands safely unless he has learned well how to obey.
  2. To walk with God interiorly, to be free from any external affection—this is the state of the inward man.
  3. Whatever is not God is nothing and must be accounted as nothing.
  4. A man’s true progress consists in denying himself, and the man who has denied himself is truly free and secure.