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Thomas A Kempis Inspirational Quotes (176)

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Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable.
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If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.
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Of two evils we must always choose the least.
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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
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It carries a burden which is no burden it will not be kept back by anything low and mean it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.
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We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.
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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.
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Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.
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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
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Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.
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What thou art, that thou art.
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
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For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.
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It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
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Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
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For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
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A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
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Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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