Imitating Christ and Despising All Vanities On Earth

“The teaching of Christ is more excellent than all the advice of the saints, and he who has His spirit will find in it a hidden manna…Yet whoever wishes to understand fully the words of Christ must try to pattern his whole life on that of Christ.”

“This is the greatest wisdom—to seek the kingdom of heaven through contempt of the world. It is vanity therefore to seek and trust in riches that perish…it is vanity to follow the lusts of the body and desire things for which severe punishment later must come. It is vanity to wish for a long life and to care little about a well-spent life.”

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

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