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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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It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.
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Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.
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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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Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
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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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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God.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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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
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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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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
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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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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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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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Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.
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Always be ready always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
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All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.
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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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