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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
Thomas a Kempis
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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
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Jacksonville
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No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.
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It carries a burden which is no burden it will not be kept back by anything low and mean it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.
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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
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Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more than the whole world. Poorest of all is he who lives without Jesus, and richest of all is he who stands in favor with Jesus.
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Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
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If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.
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If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.
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No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
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Leave off that excessive desire of knowing therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.
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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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No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
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For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.
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The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
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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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He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.
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Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.
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The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
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Thy peace shall be in much patience.
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Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
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