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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Thomas a Kempis

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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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Jacksonville
Florida
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Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
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Malleolus
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Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.
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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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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
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May not be your peace in the mouth of the men since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.
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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?
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Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
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To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
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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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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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If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
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Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.
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If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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