“It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian,
but to actually be one.
Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.”
St. Ignatius of Antioch
(sculpture found in a shop window in the small Swiss town of Bremgarten / Julie Cook / 2018)
“Wait a little while, my soul, await the promise of God,
and you will have the fullness of all that is good in heaven.
If you yearn inordinately for the good things of this life,
you will lose those which are heavenly and eternal.
Use temporal things properly, but always desire what is eternal.
Temporal things can never fully satisfy you,
for you were not created to enjoy them alone . . .
for your blessedness and happiness lie only in God, who has made all things from nothing.”
Thomas a’ Kempis, p. 133-34
An Excerpt From
The Imitation of Christ
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