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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
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Hämmerlein
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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.
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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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Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]
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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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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
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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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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.
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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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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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Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
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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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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 vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.
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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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