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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
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
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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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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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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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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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A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
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If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.
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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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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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Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!
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He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.
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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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For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
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The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.
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God deceiveth thee not.
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Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.
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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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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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