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Quotation from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, save to love God, and Him only to serve.”
The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, Chapter I: Of the imitation of Christ, and of contempt of the world and all its vanities, trans. William Benham (1874)
Book I, chapter 1: the opening chapter turns Ecclesiastes into a rule of life.
Citation: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, save to love God, and Him only to serve." — Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 1, Chapter I: Of the imitation of Christ, and of contempt of the world and all its vanities, trans. William Benham (1874). (id imitation-of-christ-q1)
