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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.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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Jacksonville
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The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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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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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
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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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Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
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May not be your peace in the mouth of the men since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.
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Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.
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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
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Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.
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Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
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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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Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
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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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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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