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Quotation from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
“Of a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.”
The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, Chapter III: Of the knowledge of truth, trans. William Benham (1874)
Book I, chapter 3, on the doctrine of truth, warning learned clergy that knowledge without holiness is empty.
Citation: "Of a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived." — Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, Chapter III: Of the knowledge of truth, trans. William Benham (1874). (id imitation-of-christ-q2)
