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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.
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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
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Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.
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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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Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
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If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.
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Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
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What thou art, that thou art that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.
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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
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Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
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Know all and you will pardon all.
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Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.
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Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.
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You are a man, not God you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
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Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.
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