Excerpts from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
Book 1 Chapter 13
Of Resisting Temptation
So long as we live in the world, we cannot be without trouble and trial.
No man is so perfect in holiness that he hath never temptations, nor can we ever be wholly free from them.
[Through temptations] we are humbled, purified, instructed.
Nevertheless, we must watch, especially in the beginnings of temptation; for then is the foe the more easily mastered, when he is not suffered to enter within the mind, but is met outside the door as soon as he hath knocked.
The longer a man delayeth his resistance, the weaker he groweth, and the stronger groweth the enemy against him.
(The photo was taken by my son while he was in Texas recently. I don't have one of a closed door, but I thought that the trestle blocking the tracks conveys a similar impediment.)
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