the imitation of Christ, the 2nd book: chapter i (admonitions concerning the inner life)

OF THE INWARD LIFE โ€œWhy do you cast your eyes hither and thither, since this is not the place of your rest? In heaven ought your habitation to be, and all earthly things should be looked upon as it were in the passing by. All things pass away, and you, equally with them. Look that [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xvii (the likeness of God)

โ€œWe have presented man as a creature of earth, subject to all the vicissitudes of an earthly existence, to all the changes that are constantly taking place on the earth; a creature subject to all the laws governing an earthly existence, without any capacity at his command to perpetuate himself. He has no life in [...]