From The Sadness of Christ:
We see it happeth otherwhiles, but not so oft as I would wish we did, howbeit, lauded be God,
we see it so sometime, that great, rich and substantial men are content rather to forgo all that ever they
have in this world at once, than with God’s displeasure sinfully to reserve any one penny thereof. These
folk now although they have many clothes upon them, yet because they be not so strait girt unto them, as
soon as present peril causeth them for to flee, do easily cast them off and safely escape away.
Saint Thomas had his prosperity taken away from him before he had his life taken from him. Put his signature on a piece of paper and he would have been free of all this. Few men have understood better than an oath is a promise we make to God.
