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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
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
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.
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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
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Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.
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In the morning fix thy good purpose and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.
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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
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The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
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What thou art, that thou art.
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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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Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
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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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Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
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Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
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