“Do you think you will remain forever here on earth, or that you are here only to amass temporal goods? Oh clearly, you were not created for that…It is true that God created the world for man, with the intention that he uses the goods he finds in it, but not to enjoy them as if they were his final end…He created him for a higher end, Himself.”
Francis de Sales (1567-1622) in A Treasury of Quotations on the Spiritual Life from the Writings of St. Francis de Sales (San Francisco: Ignatius, 2003) 45.