Altichiero da Zevio, Crucifixion (detail) 1376-79

“IT IS NOT in the power of man gladly to bear the Cross, to chastise the body and make it submissive to the will of the spirit, to flee honors gladly, to sustain reproofs, to despise himself and to desire to be despised, patiently to suffer adversities with all the displeasures that accompany them, and not to desire any manner of profit in this world. If you trust in yourself, you will never bring this about. But if you trust in God, he will bring you strength from heaven, and the world and the flesh will be made subject to you.”

—- The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis

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