For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone. If we wish to be truly enlightened and free from all blindness of heart, let our chief effort be to study the life of Jesus Christ. 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. Whoever wishes to understand fully the words of Christ must try to pattern his whole life on that of Christ. Try, moreover, to turn your heart from the love of things visible and bring yourself to the invisible.
--Thomas à Kempis,
The Imitation of Christ
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