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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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Philosopher
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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
Hämmerlein
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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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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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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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A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
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Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
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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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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
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What thou art, that thou art.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.
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Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.
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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
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