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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
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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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Habit is overcome by habit.
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The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.
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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God.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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Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
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If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.
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Leave off that excessive desire of knowing therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.
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If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
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To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
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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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Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.
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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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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
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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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