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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
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Less
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For things that worth little or nothing we care a lot and we oversight what is necessary because every man goes towards the exterior and if he doesn't regain consciousness quickly, with pleasure remain involved in it.
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Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
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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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Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
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Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.
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First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
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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.
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Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
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When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God.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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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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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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Habit is overcome by habit.
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What thou art, that thou art that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.
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It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
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Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.
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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
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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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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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