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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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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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Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.
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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
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Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.
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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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Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
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The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
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Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
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A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
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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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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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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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There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
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Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
Thomas a Kempis
It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
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Habit is overcome by habit.
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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.
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