“Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.”
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Classic Christian devotional
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Thomas a Kempis
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“Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.”
“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer co...”
“The learned are well pleased to seem so to others and to be accounted wise, but much that is to be found in learning little profiteth the soul. He that is intent upon things other than those...”
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”