FROM THE IMITATION OF CHRIST
By Thomas à Kempis
OF FOLLOWING CHRIST AND DESPISING ALL WORLDLY VANITIES
Our Lord saith: he that followeth me walketh not in darkness.
These are the words of Christ in the which we are admonished to follow his life and his manners if we would be truly enlightened and be delivered from all manner of blindness of heart.
Wherefore let our chief study be upon the life of Jesus Christ.
Sublime words make not a man holy and righteous, but it is a virtuous life that maketh him dear to God.
I desire rather to know compunction than its definition. If thou knewest all the sayings of all the philosophers, what should that avail thee without charity and grace?