““What is the basis of imitating Jesus? It cannot be his ways of being or his personal habits: imitation is never about that in the Gospels. Neither does Jesus propose an ascetic rule of life in the sense of Thomas a Kempis and his celebrated Imitation of Christ, as admirable as that work may be. What Jesus invites us to imitate is his own desire, the spirit that directs him toward the goal on which his intention is fixed: to resemble God the Father as much as possible.””
![“But to follow Jesus is not to imitate him, for following him does not mean becoming a Jesus oneself. Nor does it mean admiration of a hero and a mystical contemporaneity with him.[48] One follows Christ in one’s own response to the mission of Christ at the present day and in taking up one’s own…” quote by Jurgen Moltmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/95a/j-rgen-moltmann-9122_goals_but-to-follow-jesus-is-not-to-imitate-hi_1234075.jpg)
