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Quotation from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
“For man proposeth, but God disposeth; and the way of a man is not in himself.”
The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, Chapter XIX: Of the exercises of a religious man, trans. William Benham (1874)
Book I, chapter 19, on the exercises of a good religious, explaining why the righteous trust in grace more than in their own plans.
Citation: "For man proposeth, but God disposeth; and the way of a man is not in himself." — Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, Chapter XIX: Of the exercises of a religious man, trans. William Benham (1874). (id imitation-of-christ-q3)
