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Passages similar to: Cloud of Unknowing — Chapter 21: The true exposition of this gospel word, “Mary hath chosen the best part”
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Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 21: The true exposition of this gospel word, “Mary hath chosen the best part” (4)
And therefore let the voice of our Lord cry on these actives, as if He said thus now for us unto them, as He did then for Mary to Martha, “Martha, Martha!”—“Actives, actives! make you as busy as ye can in the first part and in the second, now in the one and now in the tother: and, if you list right well and feel you disposed, in both two bodily. And meddle you not of contemplatives. Ye wot not what them aileth: let them sit in their rest and in their play, with the third and the best part of Mary.”
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LIV. Journeying Toward Jerusalem—parable: the Shut Door—warned of Herod—"o Jerusalem, Jerusalem!"—martha and Mary (15)
Martha, Martha, thou are careful and troubled about many things: but one thing is needful; and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LIV. Journeying Toward Jerusalem—parable: the Shut Door—warned of Herod—"o Jerusalem, Jerusalem!"—martha and Mary (13)
Bid her that she help me.