15. Nature easily complains of want and of
trouble:
But grace bears poverty with constancy.
16. Nature turns all things to herself, and for
herself she labors and disputes;
But grace refers all things to God, from whom
all originally proceed; she attributes no good to
herself, nor does she arrogantly presume of her-
self; she does not contend, nor prefer her own
opinion to others, but in every feeling and
thought she submits herself to the eternal wisdom,
and to the divine examination.
My Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis (Chpt 54 15:16)
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