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Currently slowly reading Imitation, and finding a lot of helpful thoughts and correctives, and some surprisingly contemporary sounding critiques. This one is from chapter 18:
On the Holy Fathers:

They were given for an example to all who are religious, and ought to have more power to provoke us to advance, than many who are lukewarm have to influence us to relax...
[lamenting the gap between their great efforts and ours] Now he is reckoned great who just escapes open sin or bears patiently his lot in life.