John Tauler · 20 of 121

Secondly, of the work and knowledge of grace. · 74.

It is therefore a great grace that man may know each sin, in its degree; for when he knows it, he can more easily guard against it and keep himself pure. Since, then, a poor man is full of grace, he has the light of grace, which shows him all faults, so that he can well guard himself against all defects, and thus he remains pure; and therefore is poverty a pure working, for no impurity can hide itself in it.