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To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
Florida
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Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
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Hämmerlein
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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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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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God.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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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
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Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.
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Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
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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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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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