| Back | Although a Moor, I know well enough from the intercourse I have had with Christians that holiness consists in charity, humility, faith, obedience, and poverty; but for all that, I say he must have a great deal of godliness who can find any satisfaction in being poor; unless, indeed, it be the kind of poverty one of their greatest saints refers to, saying, 'possess all things as though ye possessed them not;' which is what they call poverty in spirit. But thou, that other poverty—for it is of thee I am speaking now—why dost thou love to fall out with gentlemen and men of good birth more than with other people? |
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| Front | Yo, aunque moro, bien sé, por la comunicación que he tenido con cristianos, que la santidad consiste en la caridad, humildad, fee, obediencia y pobreza; pero, con todo eso, digo que ha de tener mucho de Dios el que se viniere a contentar con ser pobre, si no es de aquel modo de pobreza de quien dice uno de sus mayores santos: "Tened todas las cosas como si no las tuviésedes"; y a esto llaman pobreza de espíritu; pero tú, segunda pobreza, que eres de la que yo hablo, ¿por qué quieres estrellarte con los hidalgos y bien nacidos más que con la otra gente? |
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