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“[One] should never assume themselves that, since their attachment is small, they will break away from it in the future, even if they do not do so immediately. If they do not have the courage to uproot it when it is small and in its first stages, how do they think and presume they will have the ability to do so when it becomes greater and more deeply rooted?”

I am destroyed

“If everything consisted in going, one would never arrive; and if everywhere we found means, when and where could we enjoy the end and goal?”

“He who seeks not the cross of Christ seeks not the glory of Christ.”

Perhaps one of the most convicting things I have ever read

Did not finish. I enjoyed learning about his life, but his text itself felt severe. Didn’t want to pollute my psyche with self-flagellating thoughts.