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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
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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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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
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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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Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
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A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
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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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Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.
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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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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
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I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.
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Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
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