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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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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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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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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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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
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Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
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Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
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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 more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.
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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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Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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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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Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.
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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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