“Whatever you see in the more material part of yourself, learn to refer to God and to the invisible part of yourself. In that way, whatever offers itself to the senses will become for you an occasion for the practice of piety.”

—  Desiderius Erasmus

The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 141.
Handbook of the Christian Soldier (1503)

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