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If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

Thomas a Kempis

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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
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Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
Humility
Seek
Fame
Learned
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Receive
Faith
Simplicity
Time
Profit
Thou

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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
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Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.
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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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Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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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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Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing For God is his All.
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Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
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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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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
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