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The Imitation of Christ | Christian Meditation: Having A Humble Opinion of Self

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Meditating on humility has been a long-practiced phenomenon in Christian circles since the advent of Christ himself. It is such an essential virtue because its antithesis is so deadly. Pride has been considered one of the vices by which all other virtues and pleasures can be poisoned. Achieving humility provides an excellent safeguard from the pervasive nature of pride, but it does not produce total immunity.

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The Imitation of Christ | Christian Meditation: Imitating Christ & Despising All Vanities On Earth

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The Imitation of Christ is an old book, but the actual practice of imitating Christ is even older. Since the advent of Christ himself, people have been striving to live up to the example he set. Not only have the Christians been explicitly tasked with this process as the word Christian assigned to the disciples at Antioch originally meant "little Christ," but many others who looked upon the faith with favorable eyes have also looked to the Divine Palestinian carpenter for direction and guidance.

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The Pursuit of Justice Above All Else: A Warning To Cancel Culture

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We are coming closer, every day, to a society that places the rectification of injustice above all other goods. We now value fixing other people and giving them their just deserts, over fixing ourselves and healing the iniquity within our hearts. We overlook all other moral goods and set upon a pedestal out of our vanity that good, which is among the most easily corruptible. In seeking justice, we have become tyrants. We are applying an iron fist where other virtues could have been better suited.

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