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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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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
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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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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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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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We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
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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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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God.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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If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.
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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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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
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Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.
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No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
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O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
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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 swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
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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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