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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emperor Constantine" data-source="post: 1306216" data-attributes="member: 16623">Thomas à Kempis wrote in The Imitation of Christ, "Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion... The more you know and the better you understand, the more severely will you be judged, unless your life is also the more holy."I'd say I wish someone slapped me in the face with that book when I was much younger, but I wouldn't have listened. I've spent an absolutely bizarre amount of time learning Church history, and I've become increasingly aware lately of how much of that learning has lead only to more confusion. Knowing lots of things is sometimes helpful, but that time would have been better spent seeking wisdom.</blockquote>