Chap. LVI.
That we ought to deny ourselves,
and to imitate Christ by the cross.
1. Son, as much as thou canst go out of thyself, so much wilt thou be able to enter into me.
As the desiring of nothing abroad brings peace at home, so the relinquishing ourselves interiorly joins us to God.
I will have thee learn the perfect renouncing of thyself in my will, without contradiction or complaint.
Follow me, I am the way, the truth and the life. John xiv. Without the way there is no going; without the truth there is no knowing; without the life there is no living.
I am the way which thou must follow; the truth, which thou must believe; the life, which thou must hope for.
I am the way inviolable, the truth infallible, and the life that has no end.
I am the straitest way, the sovereign truth, the true life, a blessed life, an uncreated life.