For our worthiness and growth in grace lieth not in many de… - Thomas à Kempis

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For our worthiness and growth in grace lieth not in many delights and consolations, but rather in bearing many troubles and adversities.

Thomas à Kempis

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Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471) was a German medieval Christian monk and author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the best known Christian books on devotion.

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Alternative Names: Thomas von Kempen • Thomas Hammerlein • Thomas Hemerken • Thomas Hämerken • Malleolus • Thomas a Kempis • Thomas von Kempen à Kempis • Hämerkin • Hämmerlein • Thomas Haemerkken

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Certe adveniente die judicii, non quæretur a nobis quid legimus, sed quid fecimus; nec quam bene diximus, sed quam religiose viximus.

. . . be able to live peaceably with the hard and perverse, or with the disorderly, or those who oppose us, this is a great grace and a thing much to be commended and most worthy of a man.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

For our worthiness and growth in grace lieth not in many delights and consolations, but rather in bearing many troubles and adversities. - Thomas à Kempis

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