At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived. (Thomas à Kempis)

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

Thomas à Kempis

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