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Podcast: The Commentaries
Episode: 3. The Imitation of Christ: The Benefits of Adversity
Description: Sometimes what we perceive as the worst things in life turn out to be blessings. The Imitation of Christ addresses the benefits of adversity. "It is good for us to have sometimes troubles and adversities, for they make a man enter into himself that he may know that he is in a state of banishment and may not place his hopes in anything of this world. It is good that we sometimes suffer contradictions and that men have an evil or imperfect opinion of us even when we do and intend well. These things are often helps...