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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
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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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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
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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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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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It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
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For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.
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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.
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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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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
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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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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing For God is his All.
Thomas a Kempis
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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Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.
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No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
Thomas a Kempis
