Thomas à Kempis: Use the temporal and desire the eternal

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“Let temporal things serve your use, but the eternal be the object of your desire.”

Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471) as cited by Randy Alcorn in the book In Light of Eternity: Perspectives on Heaven (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook, 1999) 146.