De Imitatione Christi

Why hesitate to throw your life away for the sake of the welfare of the world?

You will lose this small and insignificant life of yours soon enough anyway. So why not lose it in the most useful and beneficial and beautiful manner possible?

The goal of this terrestrial existence of ours is to become Christ-like. And that means speaking, thinking and acting as the servant of everyone and everything - even to the point of laying down your life for the lowest worm that crawls on the ground.