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Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas von Kempen à Kempis
Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
Constantly
Choose
Rather
Less
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Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.
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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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Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.
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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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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
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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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Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.
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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
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Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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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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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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All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.
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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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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
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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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