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Man proposes, but God disposes.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
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Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
Thomas a Kempis
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Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
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Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
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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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If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.
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If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.
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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
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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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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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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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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
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Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.
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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
It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.
Thomas a Kempis
He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.
Thomas a Kempis
The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
Thomas a Kempis
Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
Thomas a Kempis
I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.
Thomas a Kempis
Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
Thomas a Kempis
