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Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.

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
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Hämerkin
Hämmerlein
Jesus
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People
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Joy
Alone
Peace

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
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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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Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
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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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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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Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
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If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.
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Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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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.
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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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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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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
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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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Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.
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To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
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It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define 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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