Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.
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Symeon the New Theologian
AD 1022
If we are ashamed to imitate Christ's sufferings, which he endured for us, and to suffer as he suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with him in his glory. If that is true of us, we are believers in words only and not in deeds.