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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
Grant that I may die to all worldly things, and for Thy sake love to be despised and unknown in this world.
The Imitation of Christ (1418)
Know thou that the love of thyself is more hurtful to thee than anything in the world.
The Imitation of Christ (1418)
Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly and never seeking her own; for whosoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
The Imitation of Christ (1418)
All therefore is vanity, save to love God and to serve Him only. .
The Imitation of Christ (1418)
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.