R. M. Benson, The Followers of the Lamb (London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., [1900]), Meditation VI, "The Necessity of Serving God," p. 81

Our nature was created for God, and nothing short of God can be our end. All the faculties of our nature must be gathered together so as to be directed to this one end. Every other aim not only distracts, but destroys. O…