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Thomas a Kempis
Died: 1471
Died: January 1
Catholic Priest
Clergyman
Philosopher
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Theologian
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Thomas von Kempen
Thomas Haemerkken
Thomas Hammerlein
Thomas Hemerken
Thomas Hämerken
Malleolus
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Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.
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Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
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Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
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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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Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?
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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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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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Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.
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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
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Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
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He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will.
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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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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
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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.
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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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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
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Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
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