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You are a man, not God you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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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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Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
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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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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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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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Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.
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A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
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Simplicity reaches out after God purity discovers and enjoys Him.
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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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