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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
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If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.
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Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable.
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What thou art, that thou art.
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Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.
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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
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A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
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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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My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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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.
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If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
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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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So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
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Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.
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Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.
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